The Church-Porch. Perirrhanterium (George Herbert Poems)
Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhanceThy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure,Hearken unto a Vesper, ...
George Herbert Poems on Art (40 Poems)
The Church Militant (George Herbert Poems)
Almightie Lord, who from thy glorious throneSeest and rulest all things ev'n as one:The smallest ant or atome knows thy ...
Longing (George Herbert Poems)
With sick and famisht eyes,With doubling knees and weary bones, ...
The Size (George Herbert Poems)
Content thee, greedie heart.Modest and moderate joyes to those, that haveTitle to more hereafter when ...
Assurance (George Herbert Poems)
O Spitefull bitter thought!Bitterly spitefull thought! Couldst thou inventSo high a torture? Is ...
The Holy Communion (George Herbert Poems)
Not in rich furniture, or fine array, Nor in a wedge of gold, ...
The Priesthood (George Herbert Poems)
Blest Order, which in power dost so excell,That with th' one hand thou liftest to the sky,And with the other ...
Ephesians IV. 30. “Grieve Not The Holy Spirit, &c.” (George Herbert Poems)
And art thou grieved, sweet and sacred Dove, When I am ...
Gratefulnesse (George Herbert Poems)
Thou that hast giv'n so much to me,Give one thing more, a grateful heart.See how thy beggar works on thee ...
The Bag (George Herbert Poems)
Away despair; my gracious Lord doth heare, Though windes and waves assault my keel, He doth preserve it: ...
Praise (II) (George Herbert Poems)
King of glorie, King of peace, I will love thee:And that ...
Church-Rents And Schismes (George Herbert Poems)
Brave rose (alas!) where art thou? In the chair,Where thou didst lately so triumph and shine,A worm doth sit, whose ...
Affliction (V) (George Herbert Poems)
My God, I read this day,That planted Paradise was not so firmAs ...
The Holy Scriptures (George Herbert Poems)
Oh Book! infinite sweetnesse! let my heart Suck ev'ry letter, and a hony gain, Precious for any grief ...
The Glance (George Herbert Poems)
When first thy sweet and gracious eyeVouchsaf'd ev'n in the midst of youth and nightTo look upon ...
The Church Floore (George Herbert Poems)
Mark you the floore? that square and speckled stone, Which looks so firm and strong, ...
Complaining (George Herbert Poems)
Do not beguile my heart, Because thou artMy ...
A True Hymne (George Herbert Poems)
My joy, my life, my crown! My heart was meaning all the day, ...
Sion (George Herbert Poems)
Lord, with what glorie wast thou serv'd of old,When Solomon's temple stood and flourished! Where most things were of ...
Prayer (II) (George Herbert Poems)
Of what an easie quick accesse,My blessed Lord, art thou! how suddenly May our requests thine eare ...
Decay (George Herbert Poems)
Sweet were the dayes, when thou didst lodge with Lot,Struggle with Jacob, sit with Gideon,Advise with Abraham, when thy power ...
Mattens (George Herbert Poems)
I cannot ope mine eyes, But thou art ready there to catch My ...
The Quidditie (George Herbert Poems)
My God, a verse is not a crown; No point of honor, or gay suit;No hawk, or banquet, or ...
Sepulchre (George Herbert Poem)
O blessed body! Whither are thou thrown? No lodging for thee, but a cold hard stone? So many hearts on ...
Affliction (II) (George Herbert Poem)
Kill me not ev'ry day, Thou Lord of life, since thy one death for me Is more than all my ...
The H. Communion (George Herbert Poem)
Not in rich furniture, or fine array, Nor in a wedge of gold, Thou, who from me wast sold, To ...
Affliction (III) (George Herbert Poem)
My heart did heave, and there came forth, 'O God'! By that I knew that thou wast in the grief, ...
The Temper (II) (George Herbert Poem)
It cannot be. Where is that mighty joy, Which just now took up all my heart? Lord, if thou must ...
Sunday (George Herbert Poem)
O day most calm, most bright The fruit of this, the next world's bud, Th'endorsement of supreme delight, Writ by ...
The H. Scriptures I (George Herbert Poem)
Oh Book! infinite sweetness! let my heart Suck ev'ry letter, and a honey gain, Precious for any grief in any ...