Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: II. Life | | Good Life, Long Life | | Ben Jonson (1572–1637) |
| | | IT is not growing like a tree | |
| In bulk, doth make man better be; | |
| Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, | |
| To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear: | |
| A lily of a day | 5 |
| Is fairer far in May, | |
| Although it fall and die that night,— | |
| It was the plant and flower of Light. | |
| In small proportions we just beauties see, | |
| And in short measures life may perfect be. | 10 | | | |
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