Elegiac sonnets. Volume 1 of 2  contents   |   previous   |   next SONNET LI. FROM THE NOVEL OF CELESTINA. SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN THE HEBRIDES. ON this lone island, whose unfruitful breast          Feeds but the summer-sheperd's little flock          With scanty herbage from the half-cloth'd rock Where osprays, cormorants, and sea-mews rest; [Note:] SONNET LI. Line 4. Ospray. The sea eagle.          Even in a scene so desolate and rude I could with thee for months and years be blest; And, of thy tenderness and love possest,          Find all my world in this wild solitude! When Summer suns these northern seas illume,          With thee admire the light's reflected charms, And when drear Winter spreads his cheerless gloom,          Still find Elysium in thy shelt'ring arms: For thou to me canst sov'reign bliss impart, Thy mind my empire and my throne thy heart.  contents   |   previous   |   next		HOME INTRODUCTION