Ben Jonson Poems

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31.
Inviting A Friend To Supper

Tonight, grave sir, both my poor house and I
Do equally desire your company:
Not that we think us worthy such a guest,
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32.
A Pindaric Ode

THE TURN
Brave infant of Saguntum, clear
Thy coming forth in that great year,
When the prodigious Hannibal did crown
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33.
Epitaph On S.P., A Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel

Weep with me, all you that read
   This little story;
And know for whom a tear you shed,
   Death's self is sorry.
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34.
Song From The Silent Woman

Still to be neat, still to be dressed,
As you were going to a feast;
Still to be powdered, still perfumed:
Lady, it is to be presumed,
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35.
To Penshurst

Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show,
Of touch, or marble; nor canst boast a row
Of polish'd pillars, or a roofe of gold:
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36.
On Something, That Walks Somewhere

At court I met it, in clothes brave enough
To be a courtier, and looks grave enough
To seem a statesman: as I near it came,
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37.
On Lucy, Countess Of Bedford

This morning, timely rapt with holy fire,
I thought to form unto my zealous Muse  
What kind of creature I could most desire,
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38.
An Elegy

THOUGH beauty be the mark of praise,
And yours of whom I sing be such
As not the world can praise too much,
Yet 'tis your Virtue now I raise.
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39.
Ix: Song: To Celia

Drink to me, only, with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kisse but in the cup,
And Ile not look for wine.
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40.
Love-All

The decorously informative church
Guide to Sex suggested that any urge
could well be controlled by playing tennis:
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