I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever.
– Lord George Gordon Byron. [1788-1824]
There Is Pleasure In The Pathless Woods
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.
Tags: Beauty, excited feelings, Nature, peotry, pleasure, solitude
Keymus Blog 
January 19, 2010 at 12:06 pm |
awesome poem,
I like your beautiful words.
January 20, 2010 at 3:26 am |
Of all the poets Jingle introduced me to Your’se stands above the rest
January 21, 2010 at 3:04 am |
Beautiful, I love that piece. ” Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” Thank you for posting it.
Gerardine Baugh
http://gerardinebaugh.wordpress.com/
January 21, 2010 at 8:23 pm |
I grabbed these verses from Into the Wild movie about an adventure journey of a young man by the name Chris Maccandless. I am reading the book too. It’s really a moving story of a nature lover who gave up society life to emancipate in trampping into the wild. He tried to make sense of his life and lived fantasises of his book’s authors. I have some communs with this story hero, I hope to find time to read all the book.
January 22, 2010 at 12:18 am |
great book. the movie was nicely done as well…but the book is better i believe. a tragic tale…that last line says it all.
January 22, 2010 at 11:32 pm |
The poem reminded me of Robert Frost masterpiece “The Road Less Travelled”..
I loved the quote for Lord George Gordon Byron too.. I wonder what would he say if he visited our world now and saw how small poets are struggling with the cruel world!
Thanks for sharing 🙂
January 25, 2010 at 8:21 pm |
Wonderful verses to share. Thank you.
January 26, 2010 at 4:20 pm |
Interesting cadence and rhythm in this poem. But it works! Like it.
January 31, 2010 at 7:29 pm |
Thank you all. I didn’t expect so much visits. Let me share with you that this poem have got a great impact on me although I am not used to read poems in English. May be this is a cue that feelings are stronger than words. Yet, poem words that stem from strong feeling still be strong and this is why I quoted lord Byron words on poetry as a foreword to the poem ”There is pleasure in the pathless woods”.
January 31, 2010 at 7:33 pm |
There are interesting insights about this peom at:
http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/50356-Lord-George-Gordon-Byron-The-Dark–Blue-Sea