On My First Sonne - Ben Jonson

On my first Sonne

On my first Sonne is about a father who loses his son from the plague. The poem describes how you shouldn't love people too much, as if you do then you will get hurt at the end of it.

'My sinne was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy' tells us that his sin was loving the boy too much, then he had to grieve for longer.

'Child of my…