The Prelude

• "a little boat tied to a willow tree"
• "it was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure"
• "small circles glittering idly in the moon"
• "lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake"
• "the horizon's bound, a huge peak, black and huge"
• "with trembling oars I turned, and through the silent water stole my way"
• compare to:

  Ozymandias, Storm on the Island, Tissue, The Emigree
• "as if with voluntary power instinct, upreared its head"