Charlotte Turner Smith (Шарлотта Смит)

Sonnet Written in the Churchyard at Middleton in Sussex

PRESSED 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 doomed, by life’s long storm oppressed,
To gaze with envy on their gloomy rest.

1. Sonnet Written at Penshurst in Autumn, 1788
2. Sonnet 26. To the River Arun
3. Sonnet 10. To Mrs. G***
4. Verses, on the Death of the Same Lady
5. Sonnet 55. The Return of the Nightingale. Written in May, 1791

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