Composed After a Journey Across the Hambleton Hills
Yorkshire
Composed After a Journey Across the Hambleton Hills - meaning Summary
Dusk Blurs Visionary Sight
Wordsworth recounts reaching a longed-for vantage on the Hambleton Hills at dusk, only to find evening has already dimmed the scene. Though the western sky briefly conjures vivid, almost hallucinatory images—"Indian citadel," "Temple of Greece," imagined isles and groves—these visions feel insubstantial. The poem registers wonder at nature’s sudden pictorial gifts while acknowledging their fleeting quality and the limits of earthly memory to hold them.
Read Complete AnalysesDARK and more dark the shades of evening fell; The wished-for point was reached--but at an hour When little could be gained from that rich dower Of prospect, whereof many thousands tell. Yet did the glowing west with marvellous power Salute us; there stood Indian citadel, Temple of Greece, and minster with its tower Substantially expressed--a place for bell Or clock to toll from! Many a tempting isle, With groves that never were imagined, lay 'Mid seas how steadfast! objects all for the eye Of silent rapture; but we felt the while We should forget them; they are of the sky, And from our earthly memory fade away.
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