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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ISLE OF MAN (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: A youth too certain of his power to wade
Last Line: The power that saved him in his strange distress.
Subject(s): Isle Of Man
First Line: A youth too certain of his power to wade
Last Line: The power that saved him in his strange distress.
Subject(s): Isle Of Man
A YOUTH too certain of his power to wade
On the smooth bottom of this clear bright sea,
To sight so shallow, with a bather's glee
Leapt from this rock, and but for timely aid
He, by the alluring element betrayed,
Had perished. Then might Sea-nymphs (and with sighs
Of self-reproach) have chanted elegies
Bewailing his sad fate, when he was laid
In peaceful earth: for, doubtless, he was frank,
Utterly in himself devoid of guile;
Knew not the double-dealing of a smile;
Nor aught that makes men's promises a blank,
Or deadly snare: and He survives to bless
The Power that saved him in his strange distress.
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