Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. III. The Eighteenth Century: Addison to Blake
William Cowper (17311800)To the Rev. Mr. Newton
On His Return from Ramsgate
T
Those rocks, I too have seen,
But I afflicted and dismayed,
You tranquil and serene.
Saw stretched before your view,
With conscious joy, the threatening deep,
No longer such to you.
Upon the dangerous coast,
Hoarsely and ominously spoke
Of all my treasure lost.
And found the peaceful shore;
I, tempest-tossed, and wrecked at last,
Come home to port no more.