The Shadow - Ben Jonson

FOLLOW a shadow, it still flies you;
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say, are not women truly, then,
Styled but the shadows of us men?

At morn and even, shades are longest;
At noon they are or short or none:
So men at weakest, they are strongest,
But grant us perfect, they're not known.
Say, are not women truly, then,
Styled but the shadows of us men?

Song
The Fire
Timing Her
The Faded Face
At Mayfair Lodgings
Great Things
Love The Monopolist
Gifts
Child, Child
The Shadow
Shadows
True Love
Marriage of True Minds
Answer to the Pains of Love
Love's Way