Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

I. Admiration

A Vision of Beauty

Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

IT was a beauty that I saw,—

So pure, so perfect, as the frame

Of all the universe were 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.