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Song: To Celia

Ben Jonson

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Song: To Celia

Written by Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Meter

  • A playwright, poet, and literary critic
  • Wrote during the seventeenth century
  • His artistry exerted a long lasting impact on English poetry and stage comedy
  • He is best known for satirical plays such as Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Foxe (1605), The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy (1614).
  • Regarded as the second most important English dramatist after Shakespeare
  • Classically educated, well-read, and cultured man of the English Renaissance
  • Had an appetite for controversy (personal, political, artistic, intellectual)

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Drink to me only with thine eyes,

And I will pledge with mine;

Or leave a kiss but in the cup,

And I’ll not look for wine.

The thirst that from the soul doth rise

Doth ask a drink divine;

But might I of Jove’s nectar sup,

I would not change for thine.

I sent thee late a rosy wreath,

Not so much honoring thee

As giving it a hope, that there

It could not withered be.

But thou thereon didst only breathe,

And sent’st it back to me;

Since when it grows, and smells, I swear,

Not of itself, but thee.

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