Love
Perfect Beauty
From Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1889)
Love
It was a beauty that I saw
So pure, so perfect, as the frame
Of all the universe was lame,
To that one figure, could I draw,
Or give least line of it a law!
A skein of silk without a knot,
A fair march made without a halt,
A curious form without a fault,
A printed book without a blot,
All beauty, and without a spot!
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Jonson, Ben. “Perfect Beauty.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/51/.
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Jonson, Ben. “Perfect Beauty.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/51/.
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