Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 2. HOW HE SAW HER, by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I beheld her on a day / when her look out-flourished may Last Line: In a hercules-his shape. | ||||||||
I beheld her, on a Day, When her looke out-flourisht May: And her dressing did out-brave All the Pride the fields then have: Farre I was from being stupid, For I ran and call'd on Cupid; Love if thou wilt ever see Marke of glorie, come with me; Where's thy Quiver? bend thy Bow: Here's a shaft, thou art to slow! And (withall) I did untie Every Cloud about his eye; But, he had not gain'd his sight Sooner, than he lost his might, Or his courage; for away Strait hee ran, and durst not stay, Letting Bow and Arrow fall, Nor for any threat, or Call, Could be brought once back to looke. I foole-hardie, there up tooke Both the Arrow he had quit, And the Bow: with thought to hit This my object. But she threw Such a Lightning (as I drew) At my face, that tooke my sight, And my motion from me quite; So that there, I stood a stone, Mock'd of all: and call'd of one (Which with griefe and wrath I heard) Cupids Statue with a Beard, Or else one that plaid his Ape, In a Hercules-his shape. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 4. HER TRIUMPH by BEN JONSON A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 5. HIS DISCOURSE WITH CUPID by BEN JONSON A FIT OF RHYME AGAINST RHYME [OR, RIME] by BEN JONSON A NYMPH'S PASSION by BEN JONSON A SONNET, TO THE NOBLE LADY, THE LADY MARY WROTH by BEN JONSON AN ODE TO HIMSELF by BEN JONSON ANSWER TO MASTER WITHER'S SONG, 'SHALL I, WASTING IN DESPAIR?' by BEN JONSON EPICOENE; OR, THE SILENT WOMAN: FREEDOM IN DRESS by BEN JONSON EPIGRAM: 118. ON GUT by BEN JONSON |
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