A Pindaric Ode (Ben Jonson Poems)
THE TURN Brave infant of Saguntum, clear Thy coming forth in that great year, ...
THE TURN Brave infant of Saguntum, clear Thy coming forth in that great year, ...
'Tis growne almost a danger to speake true Of any good minde, now: There are so few.The bad, by number, ...
To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir LuciusCary and Sir Henry Morison.I.THE TURN. Brave infant of ...
Not to know vice at all, and keepe true state, Is vertue, and not Fate:Next, to that vertue, is to ...
Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show, Of touch, or marble; nor canst boast a rowOf polish'd pillars, or ...
The TurnBrave infant of Saguntum, clearThy coming forth in that great year,When the prodigious Hannibal did crownHis rage, with razing ...
Madame,VVhil'st that, for which all vertue now is sold, And almost every vice, almightie gold,That which, to boote with hell, ...
Not to know vice at all, and keep true state, Is virtue and not fate:Next to that virtue, is to ...
Come, leave the loathed stage, And the more loathsome age; Where pride and impudence, in faction knit, ...
The long laments I spent for ruin'd Troy,Are dried; and now mine eyes run teares of joy.No more shall men ...
Now that the harth is crown'd with smiling fire, And some do drink, and some do dance, Some ring, ...
Tonight, grave sir, both my poor house and I Do equally desire your company: Not that we think us ...
Why, Disease, dost thou molestLadies? and of them the best?Do not men, ynow of ritesTo thy altars, by their nightsSpent ...
THOUGH beauty be the mark of praise, And yours of whom I sing be such As not the ...
Fortune, that favours fools, these two short hours,We wish away, both for your sakes and ours,Judging spectators; and desire, in ...
Don Surly, to aspire the glorious name Of a great man, and to be thought the same,Makes serious use of ...
Let it not your wonder move, Less your laughter, that I love. Though I now write fifty years, ...
A SONG APOLOGETICMen, if you love us, play no more The fools or tyrants with your friends,To make us still ...
Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know(How nothing's that!), ...
Follow a shaddow, it still flies you, Seeme to flye it, it will pursue:So court a mistris, she denies you; ...
Epitaphs i WOULDST thou hear what Man can say In a little? Reader, stay. Underneath this stone doth lie As ...
Follow a shadow, it still flies you;Seem to fly it, it will pursue:So court a mistress, she denies you;Let her ...
Wouldst thou hear what man can sayIn a little? Reader, stay.Underneath this stone doth lieAs much beauty as could die;Which ...
Epitaphs i WOULDST thou hear what Man can say In a little? Reader, stay. Underneath this stone doth lie As ...
THE TURN Brave infant of Saguntum, clear Thy coming forth in that great year, When the prodigious Hannibal did crown ...
Come, leave the loathed stage, And the more loathsome age; Where pride and impudence, in faction knit, Usurp the chair ...
to the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that noble pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison IT is not ...
Let it not your wonder move, Less your laughter, that I love. Though I now write fifty years, I have ...
THOUGH beauty be the mark of praise, And yours of whom I sing be such As not the world can ...
FOLLOW a shadow, it still flies you; Seem to fly it, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies ...
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