Social Commentaries

On Sir Gervas Loftie

by Robert Heath fl. 1636–1659

From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 1

Social Commentaries

What what a Spanish gate this portly tal
And glorious Ship doth through the Ocean sail
Of its vast boundless pride? at which the smal
And weaker pinnace must or break or vail?
He wil know no man; this the cause may be,
He hardly knows himself, for every day
He or his garment's not the same, whilst he
Turns shapes like Proteus, looking big and gay.
Poor ship although your sails so wide you bear,
I know ther's twenty have in thee a share.

MLA

Heath, Robert. “On Sir Gervas Loftie.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/102/.

Chicago

Heath, Robert. “On Sir Gervas Loftie.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/102/.

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