Love

Song: Have Men Beheld the Graces Dance

by Ben Jonson 1572-1637

From Love Restored

Love

Have men beheld the Graces dance,
Or seen the upper orbs to move?
So these did turn, return, advance,
Drawn back by Doubt, put on by Love.
And now like earth, themselves they fix,
Till greater pow'rs vouchsafe to mix
Their motions with them. Do not fear
You brighter planets of the sphere:
Not one male heart you see,
But rather to his female eyes
Would die a destin'd sacrifice,
Than live at home, and free.

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Headed Song in the masque, after the second dance.

MLA

Jonson, Ben. “Song: Have Men Beheld the Graces Dance.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/291/.

Chicago

Jonson, Ben. “Song: Have Men Beheld the Graces Dance.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/291/.

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