<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355447" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet LXIX</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Written at the same place, on seeing a Seaman return<br>who had been imprisoned at Rochfort. <br>CLOUDS, gold and purple, o'er the western ray<br>Threw a bright veil, and catching lights between,<br>Fell on the glancing sail, that we had seen<br>With soft, but adverse winds, throughout the day<br>Contending vainly: as the vessel nears,<br>Increasing numbers hail it from the shore;<br>Lo! on the deck a pallid form appears,<br>Half wondering to behold himself once more<br>Approach his home--And now he can discern<br>His cottage thatch amid surrounding trees;<br>Yet, trembling, dreads lest sorrow or disease<br>Await him there, embittering his return:<br>But all he loves are safe; with heart elate,<br>Though poor and plunder'd, he absolves his fate!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charlotte+Smith">Charlotte Smith</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355447" data-title="Sonnet LXIX de Charlotte Smith" data-description="Written at the same place, on seeing a Seaman return who had been imprisoned at Rochfort. CLOUDS, gold and purple, o'er the western ray Threw a bright veil, and catching lights between, Fell on the glancing sail, that we had seen With soft, but a..."></div> </div> </div>

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