Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Fancy: I. The Imagination | | Fantasy | | Ben Jonson (1572–1637) |
| | From “The Vision of Delight”
BREAK, Fantasy, from thy cave of cloud, | |
| And spread thy purple wings, | |
| Now all thy figures are allowed, | |
| And various shapes of things; | |
| Create of airy forms a stream, | 5 |
| It must have blood, and naught of phlegm; | |
| And though it be a waking dream, | |
| Yet let it like an odor rise | |
| To all the senses here, | |
| And fall like sleep upon their eyes, | 10 |
| Or music in their ear. | | | | |
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