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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WRITTEN AT SCARBOROUGH. AUGUST, 1799, by MARY TIGHE Poet's Biography
First Line: As musing pensive in my silent home
Last Line: To each new storm which frets the angry main.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary
Subject(s): Memory
First Line: As musing pensive in my silent home
Last Line: To each new storm which frets the angry main.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary
Subject(s): Memory
As musing pensive in my silent home
I hear far off the sullen ocean's roar,
Where the rude wave just sweeps the level shore,
Or bursts upon the rocks with whitening foam,
I think upon the scenes my life has known;
On days of sorrow, and some hours of joy;
Both which alike time could so soon destroy!
And now they seem a busy dream alone;
While on the earth exists no single trace
Of all that shook my agitated soul,
As on the beach new waves for ever roll
And fill their past forgotten brother's place:
But I, like the worn sand, exposed remain
To each new storm which frets the angry main.
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