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Poem by Ben Jonson


To All, to Whom I Write


May none whose scatter'd names honor my book,
For strict degrees of rank or title look :
'Tis 'gainst the manners of an epigram ;
And I a poet here, no herald am.



Ben Jonson


Ben Jonson's other poems:
  1. To King James
  2. On the New Hot-House
  3. On the Union
  4. To Brainhardy
  5. To My Bookseller


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