Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO SIR WILLIAM JEPHSON, by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jephson, thou man of men, to whose loved name Last Line: A desperate solecism in truth and wit. Subject(s): Jephson, Sir William (d. 1611) | ||||||||
Jephson, thou man of men, to whose loved name All gentry, yet, owe part of their best flame! So did thy virtue inform, thy wit sustain That age, when thou stood'st up the master brain: Thou wert the first, mad'st merit know her strength, And those that lacked it, to suspect at length, 'Twas not entailed on title. That some word Might be found out as good, and not 'my lord'. That Nature no such difference had impressed In men, but every bravest was the best: That blood not minds, but minds did blood adorn: And to live great, was better, than great born. These were thy knowing arts: which who doth now Virtuously practise must at least allow Them in, if not from thee; or must commit A desperate solecism in truth and wit. | 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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