XIII: Epistle: To Katherine, Lady Aubigny (Ben Jonson Poems)
'Tis growne almost a danger to speake true Of any good minde, now: There are so few.The bad, by number, ...
'Tis growne almost a danger to speake true Of any good minde, now: There are so few.The bad, by number, ...
Not to know vice at all, and keepe true state, Is vertue, and not Fate:Next, to that vertue, is to ...
Not to know vice at all, and keep true state, Is virtue and not fate:Next to that virtue, is to ...
Madame,VVhil'st that, for which all vertue now is sold, And almost every vice, almightie gold,That which, to boote with hell, ...
Now that the harth is crown'd with smiling fire, And some do drink, and some do dance, Some ring, ...
Why do we lie'Why do we lie,' she questioned, her warm eyeson the grey Autumn wind and its coursing,'all afternoon ...
Beauties, have ye seen this toy,Called Love, a little boy,Almost naked, wanton, blind;Cruel now, and then as kind?If he be ...
See the chariot at hand here of Love, Wherein my lady rideth! Each that draws is ...
See the chariot at hand here of Love, Wherein my lady rideth! Each that draws is a swan ...
THOUGH beauty be the mark of praise, And yours of whom I sing be such As not the ...
Good, and great God, can I not think of thee, But it must, straight, my melancholy bee?Is it interpreted in ...
HIGH-SPIRITED friend,I send nor balms nor cor'sives to your wound: Your fate hath foundA gentler and more ...
Let it not your wonder move, Less your laughter, that I love. Though I now write fifty years, ...
Hear me, O God! A broken heart Is my best part. Use still thy rod, That ...
This morning, timely rapt with holy fire,I thought to form unto my zealous Muse What kind of creature I could ...
I now think Love is rather deaf than blind, For else it could not be ...
Kisse mee, Sweet: The wary loverCan your favours keepe, and cover,When the common courting jayAll your bounties will betray.Kisse againe: ...
The decorously informative churchGuide to Sex suggested that any urgecould well be controlled by playing tennis:and the game provided also ...
I that have been a lover, and could show it, Though not in these, in rhymes not wholly dumb, Since ...
My son finds occupationin almost nothing, in everything:my soapy penitential toothpaste,his mother's loosened hairorts, containers, useless things;watches as I peeas ...
Come my Celia, let us prove,While wee may, the sports of love;Time will not be ours, for'ever:He, at length, our ...
Come, my Celia, let us proveWhile we may the sports of love;Time will not be ours forever,He at length our ...
Come, my Celia, let us proveWhile we may, the sports of love;Time will not be ours forever;He at length our ...
Some act of Love's bound to reherse,I thought to bind him, in my verse:Which when he felt, Away (quoth he)Can ...
HIGH-SPIRITED friend, I send nor balms nor cor'sives to your wound: Your fate hath found A gentler and more agile ...
See the chariot at hand here of Love, Wherein my lady rideth! Each that draws is a swan or a ...
SEE the Chariot at hand here of Love, Wherein my Lady rideth! Each that draws is a swan or a ...
Beauties, have ye seen this toy, Called Love, a little boy, Almost naked, wanton, blind; Cruel now, and then as ...
Let it not your wonder move, Less your laughter, that I love. Though I now write fifty years, I have ...
I now think Love is rather deaf than blind, For else it could not be That she, Whom I adore ...
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