All four of these poems are fabulous! We're discussing the tribe of Ben in my literature classes this week.

"Out Upon It" by Sir John Suckling

"Why So Pale and Wan" by Sir John Suckling

"To Althea From Prison" by Richard Lovelace

"To Lucasta on Going to the Wars" by Richard Lovelace

Carpe diem quam credula postera.

--Horace