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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELEGIAC SONNET: 44. WRITTEN IN THE CHURCH YARD AT MIDDLETON IN SUSSEX, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pressed by the moon, mute arbitress of tides Last Line: To gaze with envy on their gloomy rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Churchyards; Moon; Sussex, England | |||
Press'd by the Moon, mute arbitress of tides, While the loud equinox its power combines, The sea no more its swelling surge confines, But o'er the shrinking land sublimely rides. The wild blast, rising from the Western cave, Drives the huge billows from their heaving bed; Tears from their grassy tombs the village dead, And breaks the silent sabbath of the grave! With shells and sea-weed mingled, on the shore Lo! their bones whiten in the frequent wave; But vain to them the winds and waters rave; They hear the warring elements no more: While I am doom'd -- by life's long storm opprest, To gaze with envy on their gloomy rest. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE OLD SQUIRE by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT OUR SUSSEX DOWNS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES WORTH FOREST by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE GUNS IN SUSSEX by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE THE RUN OF THE DOWNS by RUDYARD KIPLING BEACHY HEAD by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 31. WRITTEN IN FARM WOOD, SOUTH DOWNS by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 33. TO THE NAIAD OF THE ARUN by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 2. WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF SPRING by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 4. TO THE MOON by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 7. ON THE DEPARTURE OF THE NIGHTINGALE by CHARLOTTE SMITH |
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