Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DEDICATION OF HE KING'S NEW CELLAR. TO BACCHUS, by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since, bacchus, thou art father Last Line: And charles brings home the lady. | ||||||||
Since, Bacchus, thou art father Of wines, to thee the rather We dedicate this cellar, Where new, thou art made dweller; And seal thee thy commission: But 'tis with a condition, That thou remain here taster Of all to the great master. And look unto their faces, Their qualities, and races, That both, their odour take him, And relish merry make him. For Bacchus, thou art freer Of cares, and overseer Of feast, and merry meeting, And still begin'st the greeting: See then thou dost attend him, Lyaeus, and defend him, By all the arts of gladness From any thought like sadness. So mayst thou still be younger Than Phoebus; and much stronger To give mankind their eases, And cure the world's diseases: So may the muses follow Thee still, and leave Apollo, And think thy stream more quicker Than Hippocrene's liquor; And thou make many a poet, Before his brain do know it; So may there never quarrel Have issue from the barrel; But Venus and the graces Pursue thee in all places, And not a song be other Than Cupid, and his mother. That when King James, above here Shall feast it, thou mayst love there The causes and the guests too, And have thy tales and jests too, Thy circuits, and thy rounds free As shall the feast's fair grounds be. Be it he hold communion In great Saint George's union; Or gratulates the passage Of some well-wrought embassage: Whereby he may knit sure up The wished peace of Europe: Or else a health advances, To put his court in dances, And set us all on skipping, When with his royal shipping The narrow seas are shady, And Charles brings home the lady. | 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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