You must teach me the methods you employ! Helen dear, I wish we had more people like you, Humble, smart, empathetic, supportive, and kind. No matter what, you give credit where credit is due. Oh, do ...

The poem opens “Helen, thy beauty is to me / Like those Nicean barks of yore,” and we should know that we are already in trouble. “Helen” is presumably Helen of Troy, and a bark is a kind of boat, the ...