Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p "On My First Sonne", a poem by Ben Jonson, was written in 1603 after the death of Jonson's first son Benjamin at the age of seven. The poem, a reflection of a father's pain in his young son's death, is rendered more acutely moving when compared with Jonson's other, usually more cynical or mocking, poetry. On My First SonneFarewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;My sinne was too much hope of thee, lov'd boySeven yeeres thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay,Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.O, could I loose all father, now. For whyWill man lament the state he should envie?To have so soone scap'd worlds, and fleshes rage,And, if no other miserie, yet age?Rest in soft peace, and, ask'd, say here doth lyeBen Jonson his best piece of poetrie.For whose sake, hence-forth, all his vowes be such,As what he loves may never like too much.. }
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- On_My_First_Sonne abstract ""On My First Sonne", a poem by Ben Jonson, was written in 1603 after the death of Jonson's first son Benjamin at the age of seven. The poem, a reflection of a father's pain in his young son's death, is rendered more acutely moving when compared with Jonson's other, usually more cynical or mocking, poetry. On My First SonneFarewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;My sinne was too much hope of thee, lov'd boySeven yeeres thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay,Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.O, could I loose all father, now. For whyWill man lament the state he should envie?To have so soone scap'd worlds, and fleshes rage,And, if no other miserie, yet age?Rest in soft peace, and, ask'd, say here doth lyeBen Jonson his best piece of poetrie.For whose sake, hence-forth, all his vowes be such,As what he loves may never like too much.".