After long stormes and tempests sad assay, Which hardly I endured heretofore, In dread of death, and daungerous dismay, With which my silly barke was tossed sore, I doe at length descry the happy shore, In which I hope ere long for to arryve: Fayre soyle it seemes from far, and fraught with store Of all that deare and daynty is alyve. Most happy he that can at last atchyve The joyous safety of so sweet a rest; Whose least delight sufficeth to deprive Remembrance of all paines which him opprest. All paines are nothing in respect of this, All sorrowes short that gaine eternall blisse | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET TO A NEGRO IN HARLEM by HELENE JOHNSON THE JESTER'S SERMON by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY SONG, FR. ARTAXERXES (OPERA) by THOMAS AUGUSTINE ARNE A LUNCHEON (THOMAS HARDY ENTERTAINS THE PRINCE OF WALES) by HENRY MAXIMILIAN BEERBOHM THE RECOLLECTION OF THE PEOPLE by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER GRISELDA: CHAPTER 4 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |