...echoes, Wordsworth describes in nature an "eterne in mutabilitie" beyond the reach of mortal striving: The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary blasts of waterfalls. (1805; 6: 624-26) For Tithonus, however, the world of nature represents the mortal estate of which...

...Prelude, for instance, he describes the natural grandeur in terms of deliberate balanced ambiguity: The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to...decayed, The stationary blasts of waterfalls, And everywhere along the hollow rent Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting...

...this gloomy Pass, And with them did we journey several hours At a slow step. The immeasurable heights Of woods decaying never to be decayed, The stationary...bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting from the cleat blue sky The rocks that muttered close upon our ears. Black drizzling crags that spake by the...

...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...decayed, The stationary blasts of waterfalls, And everywhere along the hollow rent Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting...

...pure inhabitants, These forests unapproachable by death, That shall endure as long as man endures...; The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to be decayed The stationary blast of waterfalls.... decirlo, a tomar prestada de la naturaleza la estabilidad temporal de la que...

...poet perceives and reaches out to the spiritual reality behind nature's transient forms: The torrent shooting from the clear blue sky, The rocks that muttered close upon our ears . . . Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light — Were all like workings of one mind, the features...

...fellow-travellers in this gloomy strait And with them did we journey several hours At a slow pace. The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to...forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, 630 The rocks that muttered close upon our ears, Black drizzling crags that spake by the way-side As...

...Were fellow-travellers in this gloomy Pass, And with them did we joumey several hours At a slow step. The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to...blasts of waterfalls, And in the narrow rent, at every tum. Winds thwarting winds bewildered and forlom, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky. The...

...the picturesqueness of that mountain route,"20 but Wordsworth made an effort to do so all the same. "The immeasurable height / Of woods decaying, never...to be decayed / The stationary blasts of waterfalls / . . . The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky" — these are some of the impressions that the...

...rather more important an issue than the meagre evidence it gives of specific knowledge of mineralogy: The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary blast of waterfalls, And everywhere along the hollow rent Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn,...