Ungratefulnesse (George Herbert Poems)
Lord, with what bountie and rare clemencie Hast thou redeem'd us from the grave! If ...
Lord, with what bountie and rare clemencie Hast thou redeem'd us from the grave! If ...
Queen Mary one day Jesus sentTo fetch some water, legends tell;The little boy, obedient,Drew a full pitcher from the well;But ...
This ae nighte, this ae nighte,Every nighte and alle,Fire, and sleet, and candle-lighte,And Christe receive thye saule.When thou from hence ...
WHEN in my narrow cell I lie, The long day's penance done at last, I see the ghosts ...
Shelter and succour such as common men Afford the weaker partners of their fate, Have I derived from ...
This ae night, this ae nightEvery night and alle,Fire and sleet and candle lighte,And Christ receive thy sauleWhen thou from ...
The Spirit of Darkness, the Prince of the Power of the Air,The terror that walketh by night, and the horror ...
Seal thou the window! Yea, shut out the lightAnd bar my door to all the airs of spring.Yet in my ...
I IN EXCELSIS Two dwellings, Peace, are thine. One is the mountain-height, Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the ...
Notus in fratres animi paterni. Hor. Carm. lib.II.2. A bless?d lot hath he, who having passed His youth and early ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
O thou Most High who rulest all And hear'st the prayers of thine, O hearken, Lord, unto my suit And ...
Coldly, sadly descends The autumn-evening. The field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither'd leaves, and the elms, Fade ...
My desires are many and my cry is pitiful, but ever didst thou save me by hard refusals; and this ...
In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began, The word of the earth in the ...
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing, And like enough thou know'st thy estimate: The charter of thy worth ...
My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But ...
I thank thee, friend, for the beautiful thought That in words well chosen thou gavest to me, Deep in the ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
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