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Poetry Library

— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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ON MY FIRST SON.

12 lines
Ben Jonson·1572–1637
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AREWELL, 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.Oh! could I lose all father, now! for why,Will man lament the state he should envy?To have so soon ’scaped world’s, and flesh’s rage,And, if no other misery, yet age!Rest in soft peace, and, asked, say here doth lieBen Jonson his best piece of poetry;For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such,As what he loves may never like too much.
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