Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VII. Descriptive: Narrative. 1904. | | | | Descriptive Poems: I. Personal: Great Writers | | On the Portrait of Shakespeare | | Ben Jonson (1572–1637) |
| | | THIS figure, 1 that thou here seest put, | |
| It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; | |
| Wherein the Graver had a strife | |
| With Nature to outdo the life: | |
| O, could he but have drawn his wit | 5 |
| As well in brass, as he hath hit | |
| His face; the Print would then surpass | |
| All that was ever writ in brass. | |
| But since he cannot, Reader, look | |
| Not at his picture, but his book. | 10 |
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