Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON HONOURED POEMS OF HIS HONOURED FRIEND SIR JOHN BEAUMONT, by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This book will live; it hath a genius: this Last Line: Of ethnicism, makes his muse a saint. Subject(s): Beaumont, Sir John (1583-1627) | ||||||||
This book will live; it hath a genius: this Above his reader, or his praiser, is. Hence, then, profane: here needs no words' expense In bulwarks, ravelins, ramparts, for defence, Such, as the creeping common pioneers use When they do sweat to fortify a muse. Though I confess a Beaumont's book to be The bound, and frontier of our poetry; And doth deserve all muniments of praise, That art, or engine, on the strength can raise. Yet, who dares offer a redoubt to rear? To cut a dike, or stick a stake up, here, Before this work, where envy hath not cast A trench against it, nor a battery placed? Stay, till she make her vain approaches. Then If, maimed, she come off, 'tis not of men This fort of so impregnable access, But higher power, as spite could not make less, Nor flattery! But secured, by the author's name, Defies, what's cross to piety, or good fame. And like a hallowed temple, free from taint Of ethnicism, makes his muse a saint. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 1. HIS EXCUSE FOR LOVING by BEN JONSON 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 |
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