Elegiac sonnets. Volume 2 of 2  contents   |   previous   |   next SONNET LXVI. WRITTEN IN A TEMPESTUOUS NIGHT, ON THE COAST OF SUSSEX. [Note:] SONNET LXVI. Written on the coast of Sussex during very tempestuous weather in December 1791, but first published in the Novel of Montalbert. THE night-flood rakes upon the stony shore;          Along the rugged cliffs and chalky caves Mourns the hoarse Ocean, seeming to deplore          All that are buried in his restless waves — Mined by corrosive tides, the hollow rock          Falls prone, and rushing from its turfy height, Shakes the broad beach with long-resounding shock,          Loud thundering on the ear of sullen Night; Above the desolate and stormy deep,          Gleams the wan Moon, by floating mist opprest; Yet here while youth, and health, and labour sleep,          Alone I wander — Calm untroubled rest,          "Nature's soft nurse," deserts the sigh-swoln breast, And shuns the eyes, that only wake to weep!  contents   |   previous   |   next		HOME INTRODUCTION