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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PHILOCTETES AT LEMNOS; SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN AT LEMNOS, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1762-1788) Poet's Biography
First Line: On this lone isle whose rugged rocks affright
Last Line: That parts famed trachis from the euboic shore.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet Supposed To Be Written At Lemnos;at Lemnos
Subject(s): Lemnos (island), Greece
First Line: On this lone isle whose rugged rocks affright
Last Line: That parts famed trachis from the euboic shore.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet Supposed To Be Written At Lemnos;at Lemnos
Subject(s): Lemnos (island), Greece
ON this lone isle whose rugged rocks affright
The cautious pilot, ten revolving years
Great Paean's son, unwonted erst to tears,
Wept o'er his wound: alike each rolling light
Of heaven he watched, and blamed its lingering flight;
By day the sea-mew, screaming round his cave,
Drove slumber from his eyes; the chiding wave
And savage howlings chased his dreams by night.
Hope still was his: in each low breeze that sighed
Through his rude grot he heard a coming oar,
In each white cloud a coming sail he spied;
Nor seldom listened to the fancied roar
Of OEta's torrents, or the hoarser tide
That parts famed Trachis from the Euboic shore.
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