Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MR BEN JONSON IN HIS JOURNEY, BY MR CRAVEN, by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wit, and learning are so hardly set Last Line: Although the gait were hard, the gain is sweet. | ||||||||
When wit, and learning are so hardly set That from their needful means they must be barred, Unless by going hard they maintenance get, Well may Ben Jonson say the world goes hard. This was Mr Ben Jonson's Answer of the Sudden Ill may Ben Jonson slander so his feet, For when the profit with the pain doth meet, Although the gait were hard, the gain is sweet. | 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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