Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine
        (Song to Celia, 1-2)

1. A Celebration of Charis: I. His Excuse for Loving
2. A Celebration of Charis: IV. Her Triumph
3. Cynthia's Revels: Queen and huntress, chaste and fair
4. Epicoene, or the Silent Woman: Still to be neat, still to be drest
5. Epigrams: An Epitaph on S.P.
6. Epigrams: Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
7. Epigrams: On my First Son
8. Epigrams: To John Donne
9. Epigrams: To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with John Donne's Satires
10. A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme
11. A Hymn to God the Father
12. The Metamorphosed Gypsies (excerpt)
13. My Picture Left in Scotland
14. An Ode to Himself
15. Ode to Himself upon the Censure of his "New Inn"
16. A Pindaric Ode (Ode: To The Immortal Memory And Friendship Of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary And Sir H. Morison)
17. Song to Celia (Drink Me Only With Thine Eyes)
18. To Heaven
19. To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare
20. Volpone: Come my Celia, let us prove

1. Timber (1640)

Notes on Life and Works

The standard edition of Jonson's Works is the monumental one by Herford and Simpson (11 vols.; London: Oxford University Press, 1925-53). Most of Jonson's poems appeared first in the Folio of 1616, the later poems in the Second Folio of 1640.

Biographical information

Given name: Ben
Family name: Jonson
Birth date: 1572
Death date: 6 August 1637
Nationality: English
Family relations
          son: Benjamin Jonson
          son: Benjamin Jonson
          daughter: Mary Jonson
Languages
          English
          Latin
          Greek
Education
          School in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields
          Westminster School
          St. John's College, Cambridge (M.A.) to 19 July 1619
Religion: Roman Catholic: 1586 to 1598
Literary period: Seventeenth century
Residences
          Flanders to 1592
          Westminster: 1572
Illnesses
          Palsy
          Dropsy
Buried at: Westminster Abbey
First RPO edition: 1997