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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO [THE REVEREND] MR. NEWTON ON HIS RETURN FROM RAMSGATE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: That ocean you of late surveyed
Last Line: Come home to port no more.
First Line: That ocean you of late surveyed
Last Line: Come home to port no more.
THAT ocean you of late surveyed,
Those rocks, I too have seen,
But I afflicted and dismayed,
You tranquil and serene.
You from the flood-controlling steep
Saw stretched before your view,
With consciousjoy, the threatening deep,
No longer such to you.
To me the waves that ceaseless broke
Upon the dangerous coast,
Hoarsely and ominously spoke
Of all my treasure lost.
Your sea of troubles you have past,
And found the peaceful shore;
I, tempest-tossed, and wrecked at last,
Come home to port no more.
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