...805 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents Book First Introduction: Childhood and School ... ...rces, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents Book First Introduction: Childhood and School time . . . . . . . . . . 1 Book Second Childhood and School ti... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Book Sixth Cambridge and the Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Book Seventh Reside... ...f peace—if such bold word accord 2 The Prelude of 1805 With any promises of human life— Long months of ease and undisturbed delight Are mine in prosp... ...music through the night and day Which with its steady cadence, tempering Our human waywardness, compos’d my thoughts Book First Introduction: Childho... ...Indian Plains, and from my Mother’s hut 305 Had run abroad in wantonness, to sport, A naked Savage, in the thunder shower. Fair seed time had my soul,... ...jects which already are belov’d, 305 And of those only. Many are the joys Of youth; but oh! what happiness to live When every hour brings palpable acc... ...s! Ye Mists and Winds That dwell among the hills where I was born. If, in my youth, I have been pure in heart, If, mingling with the world, I am conte... ...sleeping nameless in their scattered graves, That I should here assert their rights, attest Their honours, and should once for all pronounce Their ben...

...Excerpt: Book First; Introduction -- Childhood and School-time -- OH, there is blessing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messeng...

...Table of Contents: Book First Introduction: Childhood and School-time, 1 -- Book Second Childhood and School-time (Continued), 20 -- Book Third Residence at Cambridge, 34 -- Book Fourth Summer Vacation, 53 -- Book Fifth Books, 67 -- Book Sixth Cambridge and the Alps, 85 -- Book ...