object:1.ww - The Simplon Pass
author class:William Wordsworth
book class:Wordsworth - Poems
subject class:Poetry
class:chapter
. Brook and road
Were fellow-travellers in this gloomy Pass,
And with them did we journey several hours
At a slow step. The immeasurable height
Of woods decaying, never to be decayed,
The stationary blasts of waterfalls,
And in the narrow rent, at every turn,
Winds thwarting winds bewildered and forlorn,
The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky,
The rocks that muttered close upon our ears,
Black drizzling crags that spake by the wayside
As if a voice were in them, the sick sight
And giddy prospect of the raving stream,
The unfettered clouds and region of the heavens,
Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light
Were all like workings of one mind, the features
Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree,
Characters of the great Apocalypse,
The types and symbols of Eternity,
Of first and last, and midst, and without end.
NOTES
br>Form:
unrhyming
Composition Date:
1799? 1804?
1.
Dated by Wordsworth 1799; however, the earliest manuscript is of 1804 when
these lines appear in Book VI of The Prelude, then being composed. First
published in Poems, 1845; also in The Prelude (1850), VI, 621-40.Wordsworth had crossed by the Simplon Pass from Switzerland to Italy in the
summer of 1790 when on a walking tour with a college friend.
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