Elegiac sonnets. Volume 2 of 2  contents   |   previous   |   next SONNET LXIX. WRITTEN AT THE SAME PLACE, ON SEEING A SEAMAN RETURN WHO HAD BEEN IMPRISONED AT ROCHFORT. CLOUDS, gold and purple, o'er the westering ray          Threw a bright veil, and catching lights between,          Fell on the glancing fail, that we had seen With soft, but adverse winds, throughout the day Contending vainly: as the vessel nears,          Encreasing numbers hail it from the shore; Lo! on the deck a pallid form appears,          Half wondering to behold himself once more Approach his home — And now he can discern          His cottage thatch amid surrounding trees;          Yet, trembling, dreads least sorrow or disease Await him there, embittering his return: But all he loves are safe; with hear elate, Tho' poor and plunder'd, he absolves his fate!        contents   |   previous   |   next		HOME INTRODUCTION