Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

Descriptive Poems: I. Personal: Great Writers

Hierarchy of Angels

Thomas Heywood (c. 1570–1641)

MELLIFLUOUS Shakespeare, whose enchanting quill

Commanded mirth or passion, was but Will;

And famous Jonson, though his learnèd pen

He dipped in Castaly, is still but Ben.

Fletcher and Webster, of that learnèd pack

None of the meanest, was but Jack;

Dekker but Tom, nor May, nor Middleton,

And he’s but now Jack Ford that once was John.