Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Hampton | | Hampton | | William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
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THUS with imagined wing our swift scene flies, | |
| In motion of no less celerity | |
| Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen | |
| The well-appointed King at Hampton pier | |
| Embark his royalty; and his brave fleet | 5 |
| With silken streamers the young Phœbus fanning. | |
| Play with your fancies; and in them behold, | |
| Upon the hempen tackle, ship-boys climbing, | |
| Hear the shrill whistle, which doth order give | |
| To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails, | 10 |
| Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, | |
| Draw the huge bottoms through the furrowed sea, | |
| Breasting the lofty surge. O, do but think, | |
| You stand upon the rivage, and behold | |
| A city on the inconstant billows dancing! | 15 |
| For so appears this fleet majestical | |
| Holding due course to Harfleur. | | | | |
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