Benjamin Jonson

Here you will find the Poem To John Donne of poet Benjamin Jonson

To John Donne

Donne, the delight of Phoebus and each Muse
 Who, to thy one, all other brains refuse;
 Whose every work of thy most early wit
 Came forth example, and remains so yet;
 Longer a-knowing than most wits do live;
 And which no affection praise enough can give!
 To it, thy language, letters, arts, best life,
 Which might with half mankind maintain a strife.
 All which I meant to praise, and yet I would;
 But leave, because I cannot as I should!