Complete Poems of Ben Jonson,9780140422771

Complete Poems of Ben Jonson

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ISBN13: 9780140422771
ISBN10: 0140422773
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Pub. Date: 1988-09-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary

One of the greatest English playwrights of the seventeenth century, Ben Jonson was also a deeply influential lyric poet, whose poetry combined classical ideals with a vigorous interest in contemporary life and colloquial language. The Complete Poems contains all the volumes of poetry Jonson published in his lifetime - including Epigrams, The Forest and Underwoods - alongside a wide variety of his other poems collected after his death. Ranging from deeply moving pieces such as ‘On My First Son' and the elegant love lyric ‘Song to Celia' to brutally satirical poems such as ‘On Poet-Ape' and the reflective ‘An Ode to Himself', it offers a powerful celebration of both one man's life, and of an age.

Table of Contents

Preface 19(4)
Table of Dates
23(4)
Further Reading 27(4)
Epigrams 31(2)
Dedication 33(60)
To the Reader
35(1)
To My Book
35(1)
To My Bookseller
35(1)
To King James
36(1)
On the Union
36(1)
To Alchemists
36(1)
On the New Hot-House
36(1)
On a Robbery
37(1)
To All, to Whom I Write
37(1)
To My Lord Ignorant
37(1)
On Something, that Walks Somewhere
37(1)
On Lieutenant Shift
38(1)
To Doctor Empiric
38(1)
To William Camden
39(1)
On Court-Worm
39(1)
To Brain-Hardy
39(1)
To the Learned Critic
40(1)
To My Mere English Censurer
40(1)
On Sir Cod the Perfumed
40(1)
To the Same Sir Cod
40(1)
On Reformed Gamester
41(1)
On My First Daughter
41(1)
To John Donne
41(1)
To the Parliament
42(1)
On Sir Voluptuous Beast
42(1)
On the Same Beast
42(1)
On Sir John Roe
42(1)
On Don Surly
43(1)
To Sir Annual Tilter
43(1)
To Person Guilty
44(1)
On Bank the Usurer
44(1)
On Sir John Roe
44(1)
To the Same
44(1)
Of Death
45(1)
To King James
45(1)
To the Ghost of Martial
45(1)
On Cheveril the Lawyer
45(1)
To Person Guilty
46(1)
On Old Colt
46(1)
On Margaret Ratcliffe
46(1)
On Gypsy
47(1)
On Giles and Joan
47(1)
To Robert, Earl of Salisbury
47(1)
On Chuff, Banks the Usurer's Kinsman
48(1)
On My First Son
48(1)
To Sir Luckless Woo-All
48(1)
To the Same
49(1)
On Mongrel Esquire
49(1)
To Playwright
49(1)
To Sir Cod
49(1)
To King James
50(1)
To Censorious Courtling
50(1)
To Old-End Gatherer
50(1)
On Cheveril
51(1)
To Francis Beaumont
51(1)
On Poet-Ape
51(1)
On Bawds and Usurers
52(1)
To Groom Idiot
52(1)
On Spies
52(1)
To William, Lord Mounteagle
52(1)
To Fool, or Knave
53(1)
To Fine Lady Would-Be
53(1)
To Robert, Earl of Salisbury
53(1)
To the Same
54(1)
To My Muse
54(1)
To Sir Henry Cary
55(1)
To Thomas, Earl of Suffolk
55(1)
On Playwright
56(1)
To Pertinax Cob
56(1)
To William Roe
56(1)
On Court-Parrot
56(1)
To Courtling
57(1)
To Fine Grand
57(1)
To Thomas, Lord Chancellor
58(1)
On Lip the Teacher
58(1)
On Lucy, Countess of Bedford
58(1)
To One that Desired Me Not to Name Him
59(1)
To Hornet
59(1)
To Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland
59(1)
Of Life and Death
60(1)
To Prowl the Plagiary
60(1)
On Cashiered Capt[ain] Surly
60(1)
To a Friend
60(1)
To Lucy, Countess of Bedford
61(1)
To Sir Henry Goodyere
61(1)
To the Same
61(1)
On Captain Hazard the Cheater
62(1)
On English Monsieur
62(1)
To Edward Alleyn
62(1)
On Mill, My Lady's Woman
63(1)
To Sir Horace Vere
64(1)
The New Cry
64(1)
To Sir John Radcliffe
65(1)
To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with Mr Donne's Satires
66(1)
To Sir Henry Savile
66(1)
To John Donne
67(1)
On the New Motion
68(1)
To Sir Thomas Roe
69(1)
To the Same
69(1)
On Playwright
69(1)
Inviting a Friend to Supper
70(1)
To William, Earl of Pembroke
71(1)
To Mary, Lady Wroth
71(1)
To Susan, Countess of Montgomery
72(1)
To Mary, Lady Wroth
72(1)
To Sir Edward Herbert
73(1)
To Captain Hungry
73(1)
To True Soldiers
74(1)
To Sir Henry Nevil
75(1)
To Clement Edmonds
75(1)
To the Same
76(1)
To a Weak Gamester in Poetry
77(1)
To Sir Thomas Overbury
77(1)
To Mrs Philip Sidney
78(1)
On the Town's Honest Man
78(1)
To Sir William Jephson
79(1)
On Groin
80(1)
On Gut
80(1)
To Sir Ra[1]ph Shelton
80(1)
Epitaph on S.P., a Child of Q[ueen] El[izabeth's] Chapel
81(1)
To Benjamin Rudyerd
81(1)
To the Same
82(1)
To the Same
82(1)
Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H.
82(1)
To Sir William Uvedale
83(1)
To His Lady, then Mrs Cary
83(1)
To Esme, Lord Aubigny
83(1)
To William Roe
84(1)
To Mime
84(1)
To Alphonso Ferrabosco, on His Book
85(1)
To the Same
85(1)
To Mr Joshua Sylvester
86(1)
On the Famous Voyage
86(7)
The Forest 93(28)
Why I Write not of Love
95(1)
To Penshurst
95(3)
To Sir Robert Wroth
98(3)
To the World
101(2)
Song. To Celia
103(1)
To the Same
103(1)
Song. That Women are but Men's Shadows
104(1)
To Sickness
104(2)
Song. To Celia
106(1)
`And must I sing? What subject shall I choose?'
106(1)
Epode
107(4)
Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland
111(2)
Epistle. To Katherine, Lady Aubigny
113(4)
Ode. To Sir William Sidney, on His Birthday
117(2)
To Heaven
119(2)
Underwoods 121(1)
To the Reader 122(131)
Poems of Devotion
123(3)
The Sinner's Sacrifice
123(1)
A Hymn to God the Father
124(1)
A Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour
125(1)
A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces
126(9)
His Excuse for Loving
126(1)
How He Saw Her
127(1)
What He Suffered
128(1)
Her Triumph
129(1)
His Discourse with Cupid
129(2)
Claiming a Second Kiss by Desert
131(1)
Begging Another, on Colour of Mending the Former
132(1)
Urging Her of a Promise
133(1)
Her Man Described by Her Own Dictamen
133(2)
Another Lady's Exception, Present at the Hearing
135(1)
The Musical Strife; in a Pastoral Dialogue
135(2)
`Oh do not wanton with those eyes'
137(1)
In the Person of Womankind
137(1)
Another. In Defence of Their Inconstancy. A Song
138(1)
A Nymph's Passion
138(2)
The Hour-Glass
140(1)
My Picture Left in Scotland
140(1)
Against Jealousy
141(1)
The Dream
141(1)
An Epitaph on Master Vincent Corbet
142(1)
An Epistle to Sir Edward Sackville, now Earl of Dorset
143(4)
An Epistle to Master John Selden
147(3)
An Epistle to a Friend, to Persuade Him to the Wars
150(5)
An Epitaph on Master Philip Gray
155(1)
Epistle to a Friend
155(1)
An Elegy (`Can beauty that did prompt me first to write')
156(1)
An Elegy (`By those bright eyes, at whose immortal fires')
156(1)
A Satirical Shurb
157(1)
A Little Shrub Growing By
158(1)
An Elegy (`Though beauty be the mark of praise')
158(2)
An Ode. To Himself
160(1)
The Mind of the Frontispiece to a Book
161(1)
An Ode to James, Earl of Desmond
161(2)
An Ode (`High-spirited friend')
163(1)
An Ode (`Helen, did Homer never see')
164(1)
A Sonnet, to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth
165(1)
A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme
166(2)
An Epigram on William, Lord Burl[eigh]
168(1)
An Epigram. To Thomas Lo[rd] Ellesmere
168(1)
Another to Him
169(1)
An Epigram to the Councillor that Pleaded and Carried the Cause
169(2)
An Epigram. To the Small-Pox
171(1)
An Epitaph
171(1)
A Song (`Come, let us here enjoy the shade')
171(1)
An Epistle to a Friend
172(1)
An Elegy (`'Tis true, I'm broke! Vows, oaths, and all I had')
173(4)
An Elegy
177(1)
An Elegy (`That love's a bitter sweet, I ne'er conceive')
177(1)
An Elegy (`Since you must go, and I must bid farewell')
178(1)
An Elegy (`Let me be what I am, as Virgil cold')
179(2)
An Execration upon Vulcan
181(6)
A Speech according to Horace
187(3)
An Epistle to Master Arth[ur] Squib
190(1)
An Epigram on Sir Edward Coke
191(1)
An Epistle Answering to One that Asked to be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben
191(3)
The Dedication of the King's New Cellar. To Bacchus
194(1)
An Epigram on the Court Pucell
195(2)
An Epigram. To the Honoured---, Countess of---
197(1)
Lord Bacon's Birthday
198(1)
(A Poem Sent Me by Sir William Burlase)
198(2)
An Epigram. To William, Earl of Newcastle
200(1)
Epistle to Mr Arthur Squib
200(1)
To Mr John Burges
201(1)
Epistle. To My Lady Covell
201(1)
To Master John Burges
202(1)
Epigram to My Bookseller
203(1)
An Epigram. To William, Earl of Newcastle
203(1)
An Epitaph, on Henry L[ord] La-ware. To the Passer-By
204(1)
An Epigram (`That you have seen the pride, beheld the sport')
205(1)
An Epigram. To K[ing] Charles
205(1)
To K[ing] Charles and Q[ueen] Mary
206(1)
An Epigram. To our Great and Good K[ing] Charles
206(1)
An Epigram on the Prince's Birth. 1630
207(1)
An Epigram to the Queen, then Lying in. 1630
208(1)
An Ode, or Song, by All the Muses
208(2)
An Epigram. To the Household. 1630
210(1)
An Epigram. To a Friend and Son
211(1)
To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison
211(4)
To the Right Honourable, the Lord High Treasurer of England
215(1)
To the King. On His Birthday
216(1)
On the Right Honourable and Virtuous Lord Weston
217(1)
To the Right Hon[oura]ble Hierome, L[ord] Weston
217(1)
Epithalamion: or, a Song
218(6)
The Humble Petition of Poor Ben to the Best of Monarchs, Masters, Men, King Charles
224(1)
To the Right Honourable, the Lord Treasurer of England. An Epigram
225(1)
An Epigram to My Muse, the Lady Digby, on Her Husband, Sir Kenelm Digby
226(1)
A New Year's Gift Sung to King Charles. 1635
227(2)
`Fair friend,' tis true, your beauties move'
229(1)
On the King's Birthday
230(1)
To My L[ord] the King, on the Christening His Second Son James
231(1)
An Elegy on the Lady Jane Pawlet, Marchion[ess] of Winton
232(2)
Eupheme
234(13)
The dedication of her cradle
235(1)
The song of her descent
236(1)
The picture of the body
237(1)
Her mind
238(2)
Her being chosen a muse
Her fair offices
Her happy match
Her hopeful issue
240(1)
Her apotheosis, or relation to the saints
241(6)
Her inscription, or crown
247(1)
The Praises of a Country Life (Horace, Second Epode)
247(2)
(Horace). Ode the First. The Fourth Book. To Venus
249(1)
Ode IX, 3 Book, to Lydia. Dialogue of Horace and Lydia
250(1)
Fragmentum Petron. Arbitr. The Same Translated
251(1)
Epigramma Martialis. Lib. VIII. lxxvii. The Same Translated
252(1)
Miscellaneous Poems 253(101)
To Thomas Palmer
255(1)
In Authorem
256(1)
Author ad Librum
256(1)
To the Author
257(1)
To the Worthy Author M[r] John Fletcher
257(1)
To the Right Noble Tom
258(1)
To the London Reader
258(2)
To His Much and Worthily Esteemed Friend the Author
260(1)
To the Worthy Author on The Husband
260(1)
To His Friend the Author upon His Richard
261(1)
To My Truly-Beloved Friend, Mr Browne
261(1)
To My Worthy and Honoured Friend, Mr George Chapman
262(1)
On the Author, Work, and Translator
262(1)
To the Reader
263(1)
To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr William Shakespeare
263(3)
From the Touchstone of Truth
266(1)
To My Chosen Friend
266(1)
The Vision of Ben Jonson
267(3)
On the Honoured Poems of His Honoured Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet
270(1)
To My Worthy Friend, Master Edward Filmer
270(1)
To My Old Faithful Servant
271(1)
To Mrs Alice Sutcliffe
271(1)
To My Dear Son, and Right-Learned Friend, Master Joseph Rutter
272(1)
`Stay, view this stone: and, if thou beest not such'
273(1)
A Speech Presented unto King James
273(1)
To the Most Noble, and above His Titles, Robert, Earl of Somerset
274(1)
Charles Cavendish to His Posterity
275(1)
To the Memory of that Most Honoured Lady Jane
275(1)
Epitaph on Katherine, Lady Ogle
276(1)
An Epigram to My Jovial Good Friend Mr Robert Dover
277(1)
Ode Enthusiastic
278(1)
Ode Allegoric
279(3)
Ode to Himself
282(2)
Ode (`If men, and times were now')
284(1)
`Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears'
285(1)
`O, that joy so soon should waste!'
286(1)
`Thou more than most sweet glove'
286(1)
`Queen and huntress, chaste, and fair'
287(1)
`If I freely may discover'
287(1)
`Swell me a bowl with lusty wine'
288(1)
`Love is blind, and a wanton'
288(1)
`Blush, folly, blush: here's none that fears'
289(1)
`Wake! Our mirth begins to die'
289(1)
`Fools, they are the only nation'
290(1)
`Had old Hippocrates, or Galen'
290(1)
`You that would last long, list to my song'
291(1)
`Still to be neat, still to be dressed'
291(1)
`Modest, and fair, for fair and good are near'
292(1)
`My masters and friends, and good people draw near'
292(2)
`It was a beauty that I saw
294(1)
`Though I am young, and cannot tell'
294(1)
`Sound, sound aloud'
295(1)
`Daughters of the subtle flood'
296(1)
`Now Dian, with her burning face'
296(1)
`When Love at first did move'
297(1)
`So beauty on the waters stood'
297(1)
`If all these Cupids now were blind'
297(1)
`Had those that dwell in error foul'
298(1)
`Still turn, and imitate the heaven'
298(1)
`Bid all profane away'
299(1)
`These, these are they'
299(1)
`Now, now begin to set'
300(1)
`Think yet how night doth waste'
300(1)
`O know to end, as to begin'
301(1)
Epithalamion (`Glad time is at his point arrived')
301(4)
Epithalamion (`Up, youths and virgins, up, and praise')
305(2)
Charm
307(1)
`Help, help, all tongues to celebrate this wonder'
308(1)
`Who, Virtue, can thy power forget'
308(1)
`Buzz, quoth the blue-fly'
308(1)
`Now, my cunning lady moon'
309(1)
`Melt earth to sea, sea flow to air'
309(1)
`The solemn rites are well begun'
310(1)
`Nay, nay,/You must not stay'
310(1)
`Nor yet, nor yet, O you in this night blessed'
311(1)
`Gentle knights'
311(1)
`O yet how early, and before her time'
312(1)
`Gentle Love, be not dismayed'
312(1)
`A crown, a crown for Love's bright head'
312(1)
`What just excuse had aged Time'
313(1)
`O how came Love, that is himself a fire'
313(1)
`This motion was of love begot'
314(1)
`Have men beheld the graces dance'
314(1)
`Give end unto the pastimes, Love'
314(1)
`Bow both your heads at once, and hearts'
315(1)
`So breaks the sun earth's rugged chains'
315(1)
`Soft, subtle fire, thou soul of art'
316(1)
`How young and fresh am I tonight'
316(1)
`Hum drum, sauce for a cony'
317(2)
`Nor do you think that their legs is all'
319(1)
`Break, Fant'sy, from thy cave of cloud'
320(1)
Hymn
320(1)
`Come on, come on!'
321(1)
`It follows now you are to prove'
322(1)
`An eye of looking back were well'
322(1)
`Howe'er the brightness may amaze'
323(1)
`Now look and see in yonder throne'
324(1)
`From the famous Peak of Derby'
324(1)
`The fairy beam upon you'
325(1)
`To the old, long life and treasure'
325(1)
`Cocklorrel woulds needs have the devil his guest'
326(2)
Ballad
328(2)
`Which way and whence the lightning flew'
330(1)
`Come, noble nymphs, and do not hide'
330(1)
Euclia's Hymn
331(1)
`Come forth, come forth, the gentle Spring'
332(1)
A Song of Welcome to King Charles
333(1)
A Song of the Moon
334(1)
Proludium
335(1)
A Panegyre, on the Happy Entrance of James
335(5)
(a) Murder; (b) Peace; (c) The Power of Gold
340(1)
The Phoenix Analysed
341(1)
Over the Door at the Entrance into the Apollo
341(1)
An Epistle to a Friend
342(1)
Here Follow Certain Other Verses
343(1)
Ben Jonson's Grace before King James
344(1)
(To Mr Ben Jonson in His Journey, by Mr Craven); This was Ben Jonson's Answer of the Sudden
344(1)
An Expostulation with Inigo Jones
345(2)
To Inigo, Marquess Would Be, a Corollary
347(1)
To a Friend, an Epigram of Him
348(1)
(To Mr Jonson upon these Verses); To My Detractor
349(1)
(On The Magnetic Lady); Ben Jonson's Answer
349(1)
The Garland of the Blessed Virgin Mary
350(1)
The Reverse on the Back Side
351(1)
Martial Epigram XLVII, Book X
352(1)
A Speech out of Lucan
353(1)
Horace, of the Art of Poetry 354(127)
Appendix I Timber: or Discoveries
373(86)
Appendix 2 Conversations with William Drummond
459(22)
Notes 481(134)
Index of First Lines 615(10)
Index of Titles 625

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