Prelude: Quotes

• "It was an act of stealth

  And troubled pleasure" - The Prelude
• "Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point

  With an unswerving line" - The Prelude
• "The horizon’s utmost boundary; far above

  Was nothing but the stars and the grey sky" - The Prelude
• "Went heaving through the water like a swan" - The Prelude
• "The horizon’s bound, a huge peak, black and huge,

  As if with voluntary power instinct,

  Upreared its head." - The Prelude
• "And growing still in stature the grim shape

  Towered up between me and the stars" - The Prelude
• "Strode after me. With trembling oars I turned" - The Prelude
• "There hung a darkness, call it solitude

  Or blank desertion" - The Prelude
• "were a trouble to my dreams” - The Prelude