To Celia

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To Celia is a poem first published after March 1616 by Ben Jonson. It was set to music sometime after 1770 in the form of the song, Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes, the poem's first line.

[edit] The Poem

''Drink to me only with thine eyes
And I will pledge with mine''.
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I'll not look for wine.
The thirst that from the soul doth rise
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove's nectar sup,
I would not change for thine. 

''I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
Not so much hon'ring thee''
As giving it a hope that there
It could not withered be;
But thou thereon did'st only breathe,
And sent'st it back to me,
Since when it grows and smells, I swear
Not of itself, but thee.