Ben Jonson Poems on Place (5 Poems)
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The Speech (Ben Jonson Poems)
The long laments I spent for ruin’d Troy,Are dried; and now mine eyes run teares of joy.No more shall men suppose Electra dead,Though from the consort of her sisters fledUnto the Artick circle, here to grace,And gild this day with … Continue reading
The New Cry (Ben Jonson Poems)
Ere cherries ripe, and strawberries be gone; Unto the cries of London I’ll add one; Ripe statesmen, ripe: they grow in ev’ry street; At six-and-twenty, ripe. You shall ’em meet, And have him yield no favour, but … Continue reading
Nine stages towards Knowing (Ben Jonson Poems)
Why do we lie ‘Why do we lie,’ she questioned, her warm eyeson the grey Autumn wind and its coursing,‘all afternoon wasted in bed like this?’‘Because we cannot lie all night together.’‘Yes,’ she said, satisfied at my reasoning,but going on … Continue reading
The Alchemist: Prologue (Ben Jonson Poems)
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 author justice, to ourselves but grace.Our scene is London, ’cause we would make known,No country’s mirth is better … Continue reading
The Thames At Mortlake (Ben Jonson Poems)
if only for ten minutes after the mass feeding of schoolchildrenafter the careful inanity of the staff at low tidethis was the placefor calm, for order of a kind the relief of walking there and the smell was acceptableperhaps even … Continue reading
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