Extract from, The Prelude Top 5 Quotes

• One summer evening (led by her) I found A little boat tied to a willow tree
• The horizon's utmost boundary; far above Was nothing but the stars and the grey sky.
• And growing still in stature in the grim shape Towered up between me and the stars, and still,
• My brain worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being
• But huge and mighty forms, that do not live Like living men, moved slowly through the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams.