Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) was an English poet, playwright, and critic who became the de facto Poet Laureate. His poems include "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" and "To Pe…
"Kisse mee, Sweet: The wary lover Can your favours keepe, and cover, When the common courting jay All your bounties will betray. Kisse againe: no c"
"It is not growing like a tree in bulk, doth make Man better be; or standing long an oak three hundred year, to fall a log at last, dry, bald, and s"
"Here lies to each her parents Ruth, Mary, the daughter of their youth: Yet, all heavens gifts, being heavens due, It makes the father, less, to"
"My awkward grossness grows: I go down, through I maintain my self in the conviction that I have as much to say as others and more apposite ways of"
"Beauties, have ye seen this toy, Called Love, a little boy, Almost naked, wanton, blind; Cruel now, and then as kind? If he be amongst ye, say? H"
"Come, my Celia, let us prove While we may, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever; He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his"
"Walking, snow falling, it is possible to focus at various distances in turn on separate flakes, sharply engage the attention at several spatial poi"
"O, that joy so soon should waste! Or so sweet a bliss As a kiss Might not for ever last! So sugared, so melting, so soft, so delicious, The dew t"
"Madame, VVhil'st that, for which all vertue now is sold, And almost every vice, almightie gold, That which, to boote with hell, is thought worth"
"I that have been a lover, and could show it, Though not in these, in rhymes not wholly dumb, Since I exscribe your sonnets, am become A better love"
"For loves sake, kiss me once again; I long, and should not beg in vain, Heres none to spy or see; Why do you doubt or stay? Ill taste as lightl"
"Weep with me, all you that read This little story; And know for whom a tear you shed, Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In"
"Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand, To read it well - that is, to understand."
"I sing the birth was born tonight, The Author both of life and light; The angels so did sound it, And like the ravished shepherds said, Who saw th"
"It will be looked for, book, when some but see Thy title, Epigrams, and named of me, Thou should'st be bold, licentious, full of gall, Wormwood and"
"Though I am young, and cannot tell, Either what love, or death is well, Yet I have heard, yet both bear darts, And both do aim at human hearts: An"
"The Turn Brave infant of Saguntum, clear Thy coming forth in that great year, When the prodigious Hannibal did crown His rage, with razing your i"
"The sickness hot, a master quit, for fear, His house in town, and left one servant there; Ease him corrupted, and gave means to know A Cheater, an"
"On the happy entrace of Iames, our Soveraigne, to His first high Session of Parliament in this his Kingdome, the 19 of March, 1603. Licet toto nunc"
"I now think Love is rather deaf than blind, For else it could not be That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me And cast my love behind;"
"Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know (How nothing's that!), to whom my country owes The great renown an"
"'Tis growne almost a danger to speake true Of any good minde, now: There are so few. The bad, by number, are so fortified, As what th'have lost t'e"
"GENIUS. Time, Fate, and Fortune have at length conspir'd, To give our Age the day so much desir'd. What all the minutes, houres, weekes, months, an"
"I The faery beam upon you, The stars to glister on you; A moon of light In the noon of night, Till the fire-drake hath oergone you! The wheel"
"It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make Man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and s"
"Beauties, have ye seen this toy, Called love, a little boy Almost naked, wanton, blind, Cruel now, and then as kind? If he b"
"Come, leave the loathed stage, And the more loathsome age; Where pride and impudence, in faction knit, Usurp the chair of wit! Indicting and arrai"
"Descended to the shore, odd how we left the young girl with us to herself, and went straight to examine the stratified cliffs, forgot her entirely"
"Follow a shadow, it still flies you; Seem to fly it, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say,"
"THE TURN Brave infant of Saguntum, clear Thy coming forth in that great year, When the prodigious Hannibal did crown His rage with razing your imm"
"Tonight, grave sir, both my poor house and I Do equally desire your company; Not that we think us worthy such a guest, But that your worth will dig"
"Not to know vice at all, and keepe true state, Is vertue, and not Fate: Next, to that vertue, is to know vice well, And her black spight expell."
"He smashed his hand in opening a door for her, and less pain than embarrassment shrieked through him. Concealing both, grimacing as if theatrical"
"To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that noble pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man"
"Kim, composite of all my loves, less real than most, more real than all; of my making, all the good and some of the bad, yet of yourself; sole, un"
"From "Cynthia's Revels" Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner kee"
"Hear me, O God! A broken heart Is my best part. Use still thy rod, That I may prove Therein thy Love. If thou hadst not Been stern to me, But"
"Fortune, that favours fools, these two short hours, We wish away, both for your sakes and ours, Judging spectators; and desire, in place, To the au"
"Have you seen but a bright lily grow Before rude hands have touched it? Have you marked but the fall of snow Before the soil hath smutched it? Hav"
"Some act of Love's bound to reherse, I thought to bind him, in my verse: Which when he felt, Away (quoth he) Can Poets hope to fetter me? It is en"