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BEN JONSON

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Poems found: 413

O, DO NOT WANTON WITH THOSE EYES

A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 1. HIS EXCUSE FOR LOVING

A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 4. HER TRIUMPH

A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 5. HIS DISCOURSE WITH CUPID

A FIT OF RHYME AGAINST RHYME [OR, RIME]

A NYMPH'S PASSION

A SONNET, TO THE NOBLE LADY, THE LADY MARY WROTH

AN ELEGY (1)

AN ODE TO HIMSELF

ANSWER TO MASTER WITHER'S SONG, 'SHALL I, WASTING IN DESPAIR?'

CYNTHIA'S REVELS, SELECTION

EPICOENE; OR, THE SILENT WOMAN: FREEDOM IN DRESS

EPIGRAM: 118. ON GUT

EPIGRAM: 14. TO WILLIAM CAMDEN

EPIGRAM: 45. ON MY FIRST SON

EPIGRAM: 59. ON SPIES

EPIGRAM: TO FOOL, OR KNAVE

EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH, L.H.

EPITAPH ON S.P., A CHILD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CHAPEL

EPODE

FOR LOVE'S SAKE, KISS ME ONCE AGAIN!

MY PICTURE LEFT IN SCOTLAND

ODE TO HIMSELF

ON ENGLISH MONSIEUR

ON LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD

ON MY FIRST DAUGHTER

ON PLAYWRIGHT (1)

ON SOMETHING THAT WALKS SOMEWHERE

ON THE PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE

POETASTER: SONG (4)

THE DREAM

THE HOUR-GLASS

THE NEW INN: A VISION OF BEAUTY

TO CELIA

TO DOCTOR EMPIRIC

TO ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF RUTLAND

TO FINE LADY WOULD-BE

TO HEAVEN

TO JOHN DONNE (1)

TO JOHN DONNE (2)

TO LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD, WITH MR. DONNE'S SATIRES

TO MY BOOK

TO MY BOOKSELLER

TO MY MERE ENGLISH CENSURER

TO PENSHURST

TO SIR HENRY CARY

TO SIR HENRY GOODYERE

TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

TO THE READER

TO THE WORLD

WHY I WRITE NOT OF LOVE

WOMEN MEN'S SHADOWS

AND MUST I SING? WHAT SUBJECT SHALL I CHOOSE?

NEW YEARS, EXPECT NEW GIFTS: SISTER, YOUR HARP

O, DO NOT WANTON WITH THOSE EYES

STAY, VIEW THIS STONE: AND, IF THOU BEEST NOT SUCH

SWELL ME A BOWL WITH LUSTY WINE

(A POEM SENT ME BY SIR WILLIAM BURLASE)

A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 10. ANOTHER LADY'S EXCEPTION

A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 2. HOW HE SAW HER

A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 3. WHAT HE SUFFERED

A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 6. CLAIMING A SECOND KISS BY DESERT

A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 8. URGING HER OF A PROMISE

A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 9. HER MAN DESCRIBED ... DICTAMEN

A HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER

A LITTLE SHRUB GROWING BY

A NEW YEAR'S GIFT SUNG TO KING CHARLES

A PANEGYRE, ON HAPPY ENTRANCE OF JAMES, OUR SOVEREIGN TO PARLIAMENT

A PINDARIC ODE

A SATIRICAL SHRUB

A SONG

A SONG OF THE MOON

A SONG OF WELCOME TO KING CHARLES

A SPEECH ACCORDING TO HORACE

A SPEECH OUT OF LUCAN

A SPEECH PRESENTED UNTO KING JAMES AT A TILTING

AN ELEGY (2)

AN ELEGY (3)

AN ELEGY (4)

AN ELEGY (5)

AN ELEGY (6)

AN ELEGY (7)

AN ELEGY ON THE LADY JANE PAWLET, MARCHIONESS OF WINTON

AN EPIGRAM

AN EPIGRAM ON SIR EDWARD COKE WHEN HE WAS LORD CHIEF JUSTICE

AN EPIGRAM ON THE COURT PUCELL

AN EPIGRAM ON THE PRINCE'S BIRTH

AN EPIGRAM ON WILLIAM, LORD BURLEIGH, LORD HIGH TREASURER

AN EPIGRAM TO KING CHARLES

AN EPIGRAM TO MY JOVIAL GOOD FRIEND MR ROBERT DOVER

AN EPIGRAM TO MY MUSE, THE LADY DIGBY, ON HER HUSBAND

AN EPIGRAM TO THE COUNCILLOR THAT PLEADED AND CARRIED THE CAUSE

AN EPIGRAM TO THE QUEEN, THEN LYING IN

AN EPIGRAM. TO OUR GREAT AND GOOD KING CHARLES ON HIS ANNIVERSARY DAY

AN EPIGRAM. TO THE HONOURED --, COUNTESS OF --

AN EPIGRAM. TO THE HOUSEHOLD

AN EPIGRAM. TO THE SMALL-POX

AN EPIGRAM. TO THOMAS LORD ELLESMERE, LAST TERM HE SAT CHANCELLOR

AN EPIGRAM. TO WILLIAM, EARL OF NEWCASTLE (1)

AN EPIGRAM. TO WILLIAM, EARL OF NEWCASTLE (2)

AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND (1)

AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND (2)

AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, TO PERSUADE HIM TO THE WARS

AN EPISTLE TO MASTER ARTHUR SQUIB

AN EPISTLE TO MASTER JOHN SELDEN

AN EPISTLE TO SIR EDWARD SACKVILLE, NOW EARL OF DORSET

AN EPITAPH

AN EPITAPH ON MASTER VINCENT CORBET

AN EPITAPH, ON HENRY LORD LAWARE. TO THE PASSERBY

AN EXECRATION UPON VULCAN

AN EXPOSTULATION WITH INIGO JONES

AN ODE

AN ODE TO JAMES, EARL OF DESMOND

ANOTHER TO THOMAS LORD ELLESMERE

ANOTHER. IN DEFENCE OF THEIR INCONSTANCY. A SONG

AUTHOR AD LIBRUM

BARTHOLOMEW FAIR: EPILOGUE

BARTHOLOMEW FAIR: NIGHTINGALE'S SONG

BARTHOLOMEW FAIR: PROLOGUE TO THE KING'S MAJESTY

BEN JONSON'S GRACE BEFORE KING JAMES

CHARLES CAVENDISH TO HIS POSTERITY

CHLORIDIA: SONG OF ZEPHYRUS AND SPRING

CHRISTMAS HIS MASQUE, SELECTION

CUPID

EPICOENE; OR, THE SILENT WOMAN: SONG

EPIGRAM ON COURT-WORM

EPIGRAM TO MY BOOKSELLER

EPIGRAM. TO A FRIEND AND SON

EPIGRAM: OF DEATH

EPIGRAM: ON BANK THE USURER

EPIGRAM: ON BAWDS AND USERERS

EPIGRAM: ON CAPTAIN HAZARD THE CHEATER

EPIGRAM: ON CASHIERED CAPTAIN SURLY

EPIGRAM: ON CHEVERIL

EPIGRAM: ON CHUFF, BANK'S THE USURER'S KINSMAN

EPIGRAM: ON COURT - PARROT

EPIGRAM: ON GYPSY

EPIGRAM: ON LIPPE, THE TEACHER

EPIGRAM: ON MILL, MY LADY'S WOMAN

EPIGRAM: ON MONGREL ESQUIRE

EPIGRAM: ON OLD COLT

EPIGRAM: ON POET-APE

EPIGRAM: ON SIR JOHN ROE (1)

EPIGRAM: ON SIR JOHN ROE (2)

EPIGRAM: ON SIR JOHN ROE (3)

EPIGRAM: ON SIR VOLUPTUOUS BEAST

EPIGRAM: ON THE SAME (VOLUPTUOUS) BEAST

EPIGRAM: TO A FRIEND

EPIGRAM: TO CENSORIOUS COURTLING

EPIGRAM: TO COURTLING

EPIGRAM: TO GROOM IDIOT

EPIGRAM: TO HORNET

EPIGRAM: TO KNG JAMES

EPIGRAM: TO MY MUSE

EPIGRAM: TO OLD-END GATHERER

EPIGRAM: TO ONE THAT DESIRED ME NOT TO NAME HIM

EPIGRAM: TO PERSON GUILTY

EPIGRAM: TO PERSON GUILTY

EPIGRAM: TO PERTINAX COB

EPIGRAM: TO PLAYWRIGHT

EPIGRAM: TO PROWL THE PLAGIARY

EPIGRAM: TO ROBERT, EARL OF SALISBURY (1)

EPIGRAM: TO ROBERT, EARL OF SALISBURY (2)

EPIGRAM: TO ROBERT, EARL OF SALISBURY, UPON ACESSION TO TREASURESHIP

EPIGRAM: TO SIR ANNUAL TILTER (SAMUEL FULLER)

EPIGRAM: TO SIR COD

EPIGRAM: TO SIR LUCKLESS WOO-ALL

EPIGRAM: TO SIR SIR HENRY GOODYERE

EPIGRAM: TO THE PARLIAMENT

EPIGRAM: TO THE SAME (SIR LUCKLESS WOO-ALL)

EPIGRAM: TO THOMAS, EARL OF SUFFOLK

EPIGRAM: TO THOMAS, LORD CHNACELLOR (EGERTON)

EPIGRAM: TO WILLIAM ROE

EPIGRAM: TO WILLIAM, LORD MONTEAGLE

EPISTLE ANSWERING TO ONE THAT ASKED TO BE SEALED OF THE TRIBE OF BEN

EPISTLE TO A FRIEND

EPISTLE TO ELIZABETH, COUNTESS RUTLAND

EPISTLE TO KATHERINE, LADY AUBIGNY

EPISTLE TO MR ARTHUR SQUIB

EPISTLE. TO MY LADY COVELL

EPITAPH ON KATHERINE, LADY OGLE

EPITAPH ON MASTER PHILIP GRAY

EPITHALAMION: OR, A SONG CELEBRATING NUPTIALS OF HIEROME WESTON

EUPHEME, OR THE FAIR FAME OF LADY VENETIA DIGBY

HERE FOLLOW CERTAIN OTHER VERSES, AS CHARMS, TO UNLOCK .. CRUDITIES

IN AUTHOREM

IN THE PERSON OF WOMANKIND (IN DEFENSE OF THEIR INCONSTANCY)

JEALOUSY

LIFE AND DEATH

LORD BACON'S BIRTHDAY

LOVE'S TRIUMPH THROUGH CALLIPOLIS: EUCLIA'S HYMN

MERCURY VINDICATED: NATURE

MERCURY VINICATED, SELECTION

NEPTUNE'S TRIUMPH FOR THE RETURN OF ALBION, SELECTION

ODE

ODE ALLEGORIC

ODE ENTHUSIASTIC

ODE TO SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY, ON HIS BIRTHDAY

ODE, OR SONG, BY ALL THE MUSES, CELEBRATION OF HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY

ON A ROBBERY

ON CHEVERIL THE LAWYER

ON DON SURLY

ON GILES AND JOAN

ON GROIN

ON HONOURED POEMS OF HIS HONOURED FRIEND SIR JOHN BEAUMONT

ON LIEUTENANT SHIFT

ON MARGARET RATCLIFFE

ON PLAYWRIGHT (2)

ON REFORMED GAMESTER

ON SIR COD THE PERFUMED

ON THE AUTHOR, WORK, AND TRANSLATOR

ON THE FAMOUS VOYAGE

ON THE KING'S BIRTHDAY

ON THE MAGNETIC LADY

ON THE NEW HOT-HOUSE

ON THE NEW MOTION

ON THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND VIRTUOUS LORD WESTON, HIGH TREASURER

ON THE TOWN'S HONEST MAN

ON THE UNION

PLEASURE RECONCILED TO VIRTUE, SELECTION

PLEASURE RECONCILED TO VIRTUE, SELECTION

PLEASURE RECONCILED TO VIRTUE, SELECTION

PLEASURE RECONCILED TO VIRTUE: HYMN TO COMUS

POETASTER: SONG (1)

POETASTER: SONG (2)

POETASTER: SONG (3)

PROLUDIUM

SEJANUS, HIS FALL

THE DEDICATION OF HE KING'S NEW CELLAR. TO BACCHUS

THE GHYRLOND OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARIE

THE GYPSIES METAMORPHOSED: GIPSY SONG (1)

THE GYPSIES METAMORPHOSED: GIPSY SONG (2)

THE GYPSIES METAMORPHOSED: JACKMAN'S SONG (1)

THE GYPSIES METAMORPHOSED: JACKMAN'S SONG (2)

THE HADDINGTON MASQUE: EPITHALAMION

THE HUMBLE PETITION OF POOR BEN TO .. KING CHARLES

THE LADY VENETIA DIGBY; HER RELATION TO THE SAINTS

THE MASQUE OF AUGURS: APOLLO'S SONG

THE MASQUE OF AUGURS: BALLAD

THE MASQUE OF CHRISTMAS

THE MIND OF THE FRONTISPIECE TO A BOOK

THE MUSICAL STRIFE; IN A PASTORAL DIALOGUE

THE NATIVITY

THE NEW CRY

THE PHOENIX ANALYSED

THE REVERSE ON THE BACK SIDE

THE SINNER'S SACRIFICE (TO THE HOLY TRINITY)

THE TOUCHSTONE OF TRUTH

TO A WEAK GAMESTER IN POETRY

TO ALCHEMISTS

TO ALL TO WHOM I WRITE

TO ALPHONSO [ALFONSO] FERRABOSCO, ON HIS BOOK

TO BENJAMIN RUDYERD

TO BRAIN-HARDY

TO CAPTAIN HUNGRY

TO CLEMENT EDMONDS, ON HIS CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES OBSERVED (2)

TO CLEMENT EDWARDS, ON HIS CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES OBSERVED (1)

TO EDWARD ALLEN (ALLEYNE)

TO ESME, LORD AUBIGNY

TO FINE GRAND

TO FRANCIS BEAUMONT

TO HE LONDON READER, ON ODCOMBIAN WRITER, POLYTOPIAN THOMAS

TO HIS FRIEND THE AUTHOR UPON HIS RICHARD

TO HIS LADY, THEN MISTRESS CARY

TO HIS MUCH AND WORTHILY ESTEEMED FRIEND THE AUTHOR

TO INIGO, MARQUESS WOULD BE, A COROLLARY

TO KING CHARLES AND QUEEN MARY FOR LOSS OF THEIR FIRST-BORN

TO KING JAMES

TO KING JAMES; UPON THE HAPPY FALSE RUMOUR OF HIS DEATH

TO LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD

TO MARY, LADY WROTH (1)

TO MARY, LADY WROTH (2)

TO MASTER JOHN BURGES

TO MIME

TO MISTRESS PHILIP SIDNEY

TO MOST NOBLE, AND ABOVE HIS TITLES, ROBERT, EARL SOMERSET

TO MR BEN JONSON IN HIS JOURNEY, BY MR CRAVEN

TO MR JOHN BURGES

TO MR JONSON UPON THESE VERSES

TO MR. JOSHUA SYLVESTER

TO MRS ALICE SUTCLIFFE, ON HER DIVINE MEDITATIONS

TO MY CHOSEN FRIEND, LEARNED TRANSLATOR OF LUCAN, THOMAS MAY

TO MY DEAR SON, RIGHT-LEARNED FRIEND, MASTER JOSEPH RUTTER

TO MY LORD IGNORANT

TO MY LORD THE KING, ON THE CHRISTENING HIS SECOND SON JAMES

TO MY OLD FAITHFUL SERVANT, AND MY LOVING FRIEND RICHARD BROME

TO MY TRULY-BELOVED FRIEND, MR. BROWNE: ON HIS PASTORALS

TO MY WORTHY AND HONOURED FRIEND, MR. GEORGE CHAPMAN

TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, EDWARD FILMER, ON HIS WORK PUBLISHED

TO SICKNESS

TO SIR EDWARD HERBERT

TO SIR HENRY NEVIL

TO SIR HENRY SAVILE [UPON HIS TRANSLATION OF TACITUS]

TO SIR HORACE VERE

TO SIR JOHN RADCLIFFE

TO SIR RALPH SHELTON

TO SIR ROBERT WROTH

TO SIR THOMAS OVERBURY

TO SIR THOMAS ROE (1)

TO SIR THOMAS ROE (2)

TO SIR WILLIAM JEPHSON

TO SIR WILLIAM UVEDALE

TO SUSAN, COUNTESS OF MONTGOMERY

TO THE AUTHOR

TO THE GHOST OF MARTIAL

TO THE KING ON IS BIRTHDAY. AN EPIGRAM. NOVEMBER 19, 1632

TO THE LEARNED CRITIC

TO THE MEMORY OF THAT MOST HONOURED LADY JANE, COUNTESS OF SHREWSBURY

TO THE RIGHT HON. HIEROME, LORD WESTON; RETURN FROM HIS EMBASSY

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, THE LORD HIGH TREASURER OF ENGLAND

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, THE LORD TREASURER OF ENGLAND

TO THE RIGHT NOBLE TOM, TELL-TROTH OF HIS TRAVELS, CORIAT

TO THE SAME

TO THE SAME SIR COD

TO THE SAME [BENJAMIN RUDYERD] (2)

TO THE SAME [BENJAMIN RUDYERD] (3)

TO THE WORTHY AUTHOR MR JOHN FLETCHER

TO THE WORTHY AUTHOR ON THE HUSBAND

TO THOMAS PALMER ON HIS BOOK 'THE SPRITE OF TREES AND HERBS'

TO TRUE SOLDIERS

TO WILLIAM ROE

TO WILLIAM, EARL OF PEMBROKE

TRUE BALM

VERSES AT THE DEVIL TAVERN

VISION OF BEN JONSON, ON MUSES OF HIS FRIEND M. DRAYTON

VOLPONE: FOOLS

VOLPONE: SONG

VOLPONE: SONG

WITCHES' CHARM (3)

LILY OF A DAY

NOW, BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM, HELP TO SING

ON THE TWENTY-SECOND OF JUNE

ONE WOMAN READS ANOTHER'S CHARACTER

CATCH

FRAGMENT

ADVICE TO A RECKLESS YOUTH

ALL YOUR FORTUNES WE CAN TELL YE

EPISTLE TO LADY RUTLAND; AFTER HORACE, SELS.

ODE TO SIR LUCIUS CARY AND SIR H. MORRISON, SELS.

BEGGING EPISTLE TO THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER

BY HIM

CAILINE: CATILINE HIS CONSPIRACY

CATILINE (AFTER SENECA)

CATILINE TO HIS ARMY, NEAR FAESULAE

CATILINE: ACT 1 (AFTER SENECA)

CATILINE: CHORUS (AFTER PETRONIUS)

CHIVALRY

CHORUS IN A MASQUE

CORVINO OFFERS HIS WIFE, CELIA, TO VOLPONE AS A MISTRESS

COURAGE

CYNTHIA'S REVELS, SELS.

ELEGY ON THE LADY VENETIA DIGBY, SELS.

EPIGRAMS, SELS.

EPISTLE TO A FRIEND TO PERSUADE HIM TO THE WARS

EPITAPH ON THE COUNTESS [DOWAGER] OF PEMBROKE

EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR, SELS.

FAME

FOR WHAT IS LIFE?

GOOD AND FAIR

HAPPINESS

HYMENAEI: TRUTH

KAROL'S KISS

LINCOLNSHIRE: FROM THE WOLDS TO THE FENS

LINES

LOVE

LOVE FREED FROM IGNORANCE AND FOLLY, SELS.

LOVE RESTORED, SELS.

MAB THE MISTRESS-FAIRY

MASQUE OF HYMEN, SELS.

MAY

MOSCA PERSUADES CORBACCIO TO DISINHERIT ...

MOTHER MAUDLIN THE WITCH

NATURE'S ACCORD

NEWS FROM THE NEW WORLD, SELS.

OBERON, SELS.

OBERON, THE FAIRY PRINCE; A MASQUE OF PRINCE HENRY'S

ON A TRENCHER SENT TO WILLIAM NOYE OF MAWGAN IN CORNWALL

PAN'S ANNIVERSARY, SELS.

PHOSPHORUS, THE MORNING STAR

PLAYS AND MASQUES, SELS.

ROBIN GOODFELLOW

SEJANUS HIS FALL: THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE (AFTER CLAUDIAN)

SEJANUS, HIS FALL, SELS.

STRAY THOUGHTS, SELS.

ALCHEMIST, SELS.

BANQUET OF SENSE

CASE IS ALTERED, SELS.

GOOD WIFE'S ALE

IRISH MASQUE, SELS.

KEY KEEPER, SELS.

MASQUE OF BEAUTY, SELS.

MASQUE OF BLACKNESS, SELS.

MASQUE OF QUEENS, SELS.

NEW INN: SONG

PICTURE OF THE MIND

PLEASURES OF HEAVEN

POETASTER, SELS.

POWER OF POETS

RETURN OF ASTRAEA

SAD SHEPHERD, SELS.

SILENT WOMAN, SELS.

STAPLE OF NEWS

VISION OF DELIGHT PRESENTED AT COURT IN CHRISTMAS, SELS.

WITCHES' SONG

TO THE COUNTESS OF RUTLAND

TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

TO WILLIAM STANLEY, ON HIS BIRTHDAY

VOLPONE, SELS.

VOLPONE: ACT 1, LINES 1-29

VOLPONE: ACT 3. THE PARASITE

WITCHES' CHARM (1)

WITCHES' CHARM (2)

WITCHES' CHARMS



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