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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: JONSON, BEN (1572-1637) Matches Found: 41 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "FETCH ME BEN JONSON'S SKULL, AND FILL'T WITH SACK", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: It was no sin to be as drunk as he Subject(s): "alcohol & Alcoholics;jonson, Ben (1572-1637);poetry & Poets; A LUTE SONG, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou seen the down in the air Last Line: Oh so fickle, oh so vain, oh so false, so false is she! Variant Title(s): A Song To A Lute Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Love; Lutes; Poetry & Poets; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy ADAPTED FROM BEN JONSON, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my celia, let us prove Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry And Poets AN ANSWER TO BEN JONSON'S ODE, TO PERSUADE HIM NOT TO LEAVE THE STAGE, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ben, do not leave the stage Last Line: Thou, that canst sing so high, canst reach as low. Subject(s): Brome, Richard (d. 1652); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters AN ECLOGUE TO MASTER JONSON, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under this beech why sitt'st thou here so sad Last Line: Hesperus leading forth his beauteous herd? Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets AN ELEGY ON BEN JONSON, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who first reformed our stage with justest laws Last Line: Than can be now, when plenty makes me poor. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets AN EPISTLE: ADDRESSED TO SIR THOMAS HAMNER (1), by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While born to bring the muse's happier days Last Line: A fond alliance with the poet's name. Subject(s): Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684); Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Lucan (marcus Annaeus Lucanus); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Racine, Jean (1639-1699); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); V ANOTHER EPIGRAM UPON M. BEN. JOHNSON, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou had'st the wreath before, now take the tree Last Line: That henceforth none be laurel crown'd but thee. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets ASTRAEA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O poet rare and old! Last Line: As now in heaven! Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Millenium; Poetry & Poets; Social Protest AT THE MERMAID, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I - 'next poet?' no, my hearties, / I nor am nor fain would be! Last Line: "with ""next poet"" -- (manners, ben!)" Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets BEN JONSON ENTERTAINS A MAN FROM STRATFORD, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are a friend then, as I make it out, Last Line: Perhaps he does.... O lord, that house in stratford! Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) BEN JONSON'S COMMONPLACE BOOK, by LUCIUS CARY Poem Source First Line: His learning such, no author, old or new Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry And Poets HIERARCHY OF ANGELS, by THOMAS HEYWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mellifluous shakespeare, whose enchanting quill Last Line: And he's but now jack ford that once was john. Subject(s): Dramatists; Ford, John (1586-1639); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Dramatists HIS PRAYER TO BEN JONSON, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I a verse shall make Last Line: Writ in my psalter. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets IMMORTAL BEN IS DEAD; AND AS THAT BALL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Thy poems shall be poet-lureate Subject(s): "jonson, Ben (1572-1637);poetry & Poets;randolph, Thomas (1605-1634); LETTER TO BEN JONSON (1), by FRANCIS BEAUMONT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun which doth the greatest comfort bring Last Line: Ben, when these scenes are perfect, we'll taste wine; %I'll drink thy muse's health, thou shalt quaf Variant Title(s): Master Francis Beaumont's Letter To Ben Jonso Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry And Poets NOT WRITING POEMS ABOUT CHILDREN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I gave birth to living metaphors Last Line: Springs from the very separateness of things. Subject(s): Children; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Loss; Metaphor; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Similes; Parenthood; Feminism ODE TO HIMSELF, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, leave the loathed stage Last Line: And see his chariot triumph 'bove his wain. Variant Title(s): On The New Inn. Ode. To Himself Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Pericles (490-429 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life ON BEN JONSON, by JAMES CLEYTON Poem Source First Line: Who first reformed our stage with justest laws Last Line: In that one word alone I paid more %than can be now, when plenty makes me poor Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry And Poets PRELUDE TO A MASQUE, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Princes, behold a masque, a vizored image Last Line: Become at length aware of an audience divine? Who knows? Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets PROLOGUE TO 'ALBUMAZAR', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To say this comedy pleased long ago Last Line: For should you letters of reprisal seal, %these men write that which mean no man else would steal Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry And Poets PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR. GARRICK AT ... THEATRE ROYALE, 1747, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes Last Line: And truth diffuse her radiance from the stage. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Subject(s): Dramatists; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theatre Royal, London; Dramatists SONG: TO CILIA (AFTER JONSON), by DAVID SHEVIN Poem Source First Line: Drink to me only with thine gills Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry And Poets SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 3. BEN JOHNSON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Broad-based, broad-fronted, bounteous, multiform Last Line: Darkening thy soul with shadow of thunderous wings. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets THE TEMPEST: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As, when a tree's cut down, the secret root Last Line: To find her woman, it must be abed. Variant Title(s): The Tempest: Prologue, Or The Enchanted Island Subject(s): Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO BEN JOHNSON, by J. N. GREELY Poem Text First Line: Twere good, above a jovial cup Last Line: The laughter of thy song. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets; Yale University TO BEN JONSON, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah ben! / say how, or when Last Line: Of such a wit, the world should have no more. Variant Title(s): An Ode For Ben Jonson;an Ode For Him Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets TO BEN JONSON, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was not born to helicon, nor dare Last Line: Tis to pen anthems for an angel's quire. Variant Title(s): A Gratulatory To Ben Jonson For His Adopting Of Him To Be His Son Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets TO BEN JONSON, 6 JAN. 1603, by JOHN ROE Poem Text First Line: The state and mens affaires are the best playes Last Line: The bruised reed, nor quencheth smoaking flaxe. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets TO BEN JONSON, 9 NOVEMBRIS, 1603, by JOHN ROE Poem Text First Line: If great men wrong me, I will spare my selfe Last Line: If good, like gods, the naught are so like devils. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets TO BEN JONSON; UPON OCCASION OF HIS ODE OF DEFIANCE ..., by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true, dear ben, thy just chastising hand Last Line: Than all men else, than thyself only less. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets TO HIS FRIEND, BEN JONSON, OF HIS HORACE MADE ENGLISH, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas not enough, ben jonson, to be thought Last Line: To be the horace of our times and his. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting TO MY DEAR FRIEND BEN JONSON (DIED AUGUST 6, 1637), by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see that wreath, which doth the wearer arm Last Line: A relic fam'd by all posterity. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets TO THE MEMORY OF BEN JOHNSON, SELS., by JASPER MAYNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Scorne then their censure, who gave out ... Wit Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry And Poets TO THE MEMORY OF BEN JONSON, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muse's fairest light in no dark time Last Line: With sorrow here, with wonder on his book. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers TO THE WINE TREASURER OF THE CIRCUIT MESS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wink at it only with thine eyes Last Line: Both at thy wine and thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets TO-MORROW IS MY BIRTHDAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, then, another drink! Ben jonson knows Last Line: Let's walk and hear the lark. Subject(s): Birthdays; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Middle Age; Poetry & Poets UPON BEN JONSON [JOHNSON], by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies jonson [johnson] with the rest Last Line: Of his glory. So farewell. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets UPON M. BEN. JONSON - EPIGRAM, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the rare arch-poet jonson died [dy'd] Last Line: Her resurrection ha's again with thee. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets VARIATION ON BEN JONSON, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty! And oh 'twas I who saw Last Line: All beauty, and all in one spot. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Beauty; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Poetry & Poets WASSAIL CHORUS AT THE MERMAID TAVERN, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas knows a merry, merry place Last Line: Rare!' Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Subject(s): Christmas; Dramatists; Drayton, Michael (1563-1631); Heywood, Thomas (1574-1641); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Mermaid Tavern; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Nativity, The |
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