<p>Ah! minha Dinamene! Assim deixaste
Quem não deixara nunca de querer-te!
Ah! Ninfa minha, já não posso ver-te,
Tão asinha esta vida desprezaste!</p><p>Como já pera sempre te apartaste
De quem tão longe estava de perder-te?
Puderam estas ondas defender-te
Que não visses quem tanto magoaste?</p><p>Nem falar-te somente a dura Morte
Me deixou, que tão cedo o negro manto
Em teus olhos deitado consentiste!</p><p>Oh mar! oh céu! oh minha escura sorte!
Que pena sentirei que valha tanto,
Que inda tenha por pouco viver triste?</p>
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Ah! minha Dinamene! Assim deixaste
“Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy!
My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy.
Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay,
Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.
O, could I lose all father now. For why
Will man lament the state he should envy?
To have soon 'scaped world's and flesh's rage,
And, if no other misery, yet age!
Rest in soft peace, and, asked, say here doth lie
Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry:
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such,
As what he loves may never like too much.”
XLV, On My First Son, lines 1-12
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), Epigrams
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English writer 1572–1637Related quotes
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 100.
The Earthly Paradise (1868-70), The Lady of the Land
Tablet to ‘Him Who Will Be Made Manifest’
“The resurrection is
In spirit done in thee,
As soon as thou from all
Thy sins hast set thee free.”
The Cherubinic Wanderer
I Will Not Let Thee Go http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6639&poem=30254, st. 7.
Poetry
“Wert thou more fickle than the restless sea,
Still should I love thee, knowing thee for such.”
Life and Death of Jason, Book ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 432.