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Thread #12986 Message #1054431
Posted By: masato sakurai
15-Nov-03 - 08:21 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords: Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
Ben Jonson's poem "To Celia" was first published in a collection of poems The Forrest, included in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson (Imprinted at London by Will Stansby, 1616, p. 829; click here for the image):
IX. SONG.
TO CELIA.
Drink to me, onely, with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leaue a kisse but in the cup, And Ile not looke for wine. The thirst, that from the soule doth rise, Doth aske a drink diuine: But might I of Iove's Nectar sup, I would not change for thine. I sent thee, late, a rosie wreath, Not so much honoring thee, As giuing it a hope, that there It could not withered bee. But thou thereon did'st onely breath, And sent'st it backe to mee: Since when it growes, and smells, I sweare, Not of it selfe, but thee.