Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN EPIGRAM, by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That you have seen the pride, beheld the sport Last Line: He is the man, and favourite of god. | ||||||||
That you have seen the pride, beheld the sport, And all the games of fortune, played at court; Viewed there the mercat, read the wretched rate At which there are, would sell the prince, and state: That scarce you hear a public voice alive, But whispered councils, and those only thrive; Yet are got off thence, with clear mind, and hands To lift to heaven: who is't not understands Your happiness, and doth not speak you blessed, To see you set apart, thus, from the rest, To obtain of God, what all the land should ask? A nation's sin got pardoned! 'Twere a task Fit for a bishop's knees! O bow them oft, My lord, till felt grief make our stone hearts soft, And we do weep, to water, for our sin. He, that in such a flood, as we are in Of riot, and consumption, knows the way To teach the people, how to fast, and pray, And do their penance, to avert God's rod, He is the man, and favourite of God. | 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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