HEWLETT! as ship to ship Let us the ensign dip! There may be who despise For dross our merchandise, Our balladries, our bales Of woven tales; Yet, Hewlett, the glad gales Favonian! And what spray Our dolphins toss'd in play, Full in old Triton's beard, on Iris' shimmering veils! Scant tho' the freight of gold Commercial in our hold, Pæstum, Eridanus Perchance have barter'd us 'Bove chrematistic care Some precious, rare, Unmarketable ware; Or amber to bedeck A Grace's naked neck, Or transient rose, yet meet to braid Apollo's hair. Boon further wouldst thou beg Of Jove? Then I've a keg Of Coan in the waist. Come, row aboard, and taste The glorifying juice That wise men use And only fools refuse! 'Twill teach thee tolerate All rubs of human fate, The which to mitigate are lent the Vine, the Muse. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE METROPOLITAN TOWER by SARA TEASDALE CINQUAIN: THE WARNING by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY THE RUNES ON WELAND'S SWORD by RUDYARD KIPLING SONNET: 99 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AUTUMN by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE DEBT by KATHARINE LEE BATES |