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Ben Jonson
Very little is known of the early life of poet, essayist, and playwright Ben Jonson. He was born in 1572 in London, England. His father, a minister, died shortly before...
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Love
Answer to a Child's Question
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Credo
by Matthew Rohrer
Epithalamium
by Matthew Rohrer
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I Love You
by Sara Teasdale
It Was Raining In Delft
by Peter Gizzi
It's all I have to bring today (26)
by Emily Dickinson
Lullaby
by W. H. Auden
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)
by William Shakespeare
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
by E. E. Cummings
Sonnets on Love XIII
by Jean de Sponde
True Love
by Robert Penn Warren
Two Loves
by Lord Alfred Douglas
When You are Old
by W. B. Yeats
Wild Nights – Wild Nights! (249)
by Emily Dickinson
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Song to Celia  
by Ben Jonson

Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes,

And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kisse but in the cup,
And Ile not looke for wine.
The thirst, that from the soule doth rise,
Doth aske a drinke divine:
But might I of Jove's Nectar sup,
I would not change for thine.
I sent thee, late, a rosie wreath,
Not so much honoring thee,
As giving it a hope, that there
It could not withered bee.
But thou thereon did'st onely breath,
And sent'st it back to mee:
Since when it growes, and smells, I sweare,
Not of it selfe, but thee.

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