Have You Seen But A Bright Lily Grow
Have
you
seen
but
a
bright
lily
grow
Before
rude
hands
have
touched
it?
Have
you
marked
but
the
fall
of
snow
Before
the
soil
hath
smutched
it?
Have
you
felt
the
wool
of
beaver,
Or
swan's
down
ever?
Or
have
smelt
o'
the
bud
o'
the
brier,
Or
the
nard
in
the
fire?
Or
have
tasted
the
bag
of
the
bee?
O
so
white,
O
so
soft,
O
so
sweet
is
she!
Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson (born June 11?, 1572, London, England—died August 6, 1637, London) English Stuart dramatist, lyric poet, and literary critic. He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I. Among his major plays are the comedies Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone (1605), Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman (1609), The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614). Ben Jonson died in Westminster on August 8, 1637. A tremendous crowd of mourners attended his burial at Westminster Abbey. He is regarded as one of the major dramatists and poets of the seventeenth century.