Remembrance of
Composed Upon The Thames Near Richmond
Remembrance of - fact Summary
River as Poetic Mirror
Wordsworth addresses the Thames as a gentle, sustaining presence whose calm surface mirrors a poet’s heart. He imagines the river carrying beauty to future bards and recalls a troubled poet who once found mild consolation there. The speaker asks that future singers be spared such sorrow, and the poem closes on a tranquil evening where suspended oars and gathering darkness reinforce a mood of serene, virtuous stillness.
Read Complete AnalysesGlide gently, thus for ever glide, O Thames! that other bards may see As lovely visions by thy side As now, fair river! come to me. O glide, fair stream! for ever so, Thy quiet soul on all bestowing, Till all our minds for ever flow As thy deep waters now are flowing. Vain thought!--Yet be as now thou art, That in thy waters may be seen The image of a poet's heart, How bright, how solemn, how serene! Such as did once the Poet bless, Who murmuring here a later ditty, Could find no refuge from distress But in the milder grief of pity. Now let us, as we float along, For 'him' suspend the dashing oar; And pray that never child of song May know that Poet's sorrows more. How calm! how still! the only sound, The dripping of the oar suspended! --The evening darkness gathers round By virtue's holiest Powers attended.
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