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The Noble Nature. It is not growing like a tree. In bulk, doth make man better be; A lily of a day. Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night—. It was the plant and flower of Light. And in short measures life may perfect be. This poem is in the public domain.
Ben Jonson's short lyric poem opposes preconceived ideas about how or what gives life value. The poet juxtaposes images of an enduring but slowly decaying oak tree with that of a short-lived lily to accentuate its ideal splendor.
The Noble Nature. It is not growing like a tree in bulk, doth make Man better be; or standing long an oak three hundred year, to fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere; A lily of a day is fairer in May, although it fall and die that night- It was the plant and flower of Light.
Jan 14, 2019 · The Noble Nature. by Ben Jonson. It is not growing like a tree. in bulk, doth make Man better be; or standing long an oak three hundred year, to fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere; A lily of a day. is fairer in May, although it fall and die that night-.
- Ben Jonson
- Introduction
- Sylva
- Some Poems.
- Footnotes
Ben Jonson’s“Discoveries” are, as he says in the few Latin wordsprefixed to them, “A wood—Sylva—of things andthoughts, in Greek ‘ὕλη’”[which has for its first meaning material, but is also appliedpeculiarly to kinds of wood, and to a wood], “from themultiplicity and variety of the material contained in it. For, as we are commonly used to call the i...
Rerum et sententiarum quasi Ὕλη dicta amultiplici materia et varietate in iis contentá. Quemadmodùm enim vulgò solemus infinitam arborumnascentium indiscriminatim multitudinem Sylvam dicere: itàetiam libros suos in quibus variæ et diversæmateriæ opuscula temere congesta erant, Sylvasappellabant antiqui: Timber-trees.
TO WILLIAM CAMDEN.
Camden! mostreverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know— How nothing’s that! to whom my country owes The great renown, and name wherewith she goes! Than thee the age sees not that thing more grave, More high, more holy, that she more would crave. What name, what skill, what faith hast thou in things! What sight in searching the most antique springs! What weight, and what authority in thy speech! Men scarce can make that doubt, but thou canst teach. Pardon free truth, a...
ON MY FIRST DAUGHTER.
Here lies, to eachher parents’ ruth, Mary, the daughter of their youth; Yet, all heaven’s gifts, being heaven’s due, It makes the father less to rue. At six months’ end, she parted hence, With safety of her innocence; Whose soul heaven’s queen, whose name she bears, In comfort of her mother’s tears, Hath placed amongst her virgin-train; Where, while that severed doth remain, This grave partakes the fleshly birth; Which cover lightly, gentle earth!
ON MY FIRST SON.
Farewell, thou childof 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’srage, 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...
“So live with yourself thatyou do not know how ill yow mind is furnished.” Αυτοδίδακτος “A Puritan is a HereticalHypocrite, in whom the conceit of his own perspicacity, by whichhe seems to himself to have observed certain errors in a fewChurch dogmas, has disturbed the balance of his mind, so that,excited vehemently by a sacred fury, he fights fren...
The Noble Nature. ‘The Noble Nature’ emphasizes that beauty and perfection, though fleeting, are far more virtuous than physical endurance. The central question, or rather, argument of Ben Jonson's poem rests on the speaker's evaluation of two ideal natures.
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Ben Jonson. The Noble Nature. It is not growing like a tree. in bulk, doth make Man better be; or standing long an oak three hundred year, to fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere; A lily of a day. is fairer in May, although it fall and die that night–.
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