Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
Poems of Fancy: I. The ImaginationFantasy
Ben Jonson (15721637)From “The Vision of Delight”
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And spread thy purple wings,
Now all thy figures are allowed,
And various shapes of things;
Create of airy forms a stream,
It must have blood, and naught of phlegm;
And though it be a waking dream,
Yet let it like an odor rise
To all the senses here,
And fall like sleep upon their eyes,
Or music in their ear.