As One Put Drunk Into the Packet-Boat
I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.
Elsewhere we are as sitting in a place where sunlight
Filters down, a little at a time,
The poem, the first in the award-winning collection  Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror , takes its title from the first line of  Andrew Marvell ’s poem  Tom May’s Death .
As One Put Drunk Into the Packet-Boat