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 God (62 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 ...
Miserie (George Herbert Poems)
Lord, let the Angels praise thy name.Man is a foolish thing, a foolish thing, Folly and Sinne ...
Home (George Herbert Poems)
Come, Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick, While thou dost ever, ever stay:Thy long deferrings ...
The Search (George Herbert Poems)
Whither, O, whither art thou fled, My Lord, my Love?My searches ...
The Discharge (George Herbert Poems)
Busie enquiring heart, what wouldst thou know? Why dost thou prie,And turn, and leer, ...
Affliction (I) (George Herbert Poems)
When first thou didst entice to thee my heart, I thought the service brave;So many joyes I ...
The Banquet (George Herbert Poems)
Welcome sweet and sacred cheer, Welcome deare;With me, in ...
Obedience (George Herbert Poems)
My God, if writings may Convey a Lordship any wayWhither the buyer and the ...
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 ...
Constancie (George Herbert Poems)
Who is the honest man?He that doth still and strongly good pursue,To God, his neighbour, and himself most true: ...
Deniall (George Herbert Poems)
When my devotions could not pierce Thy silent ...
The Bag (George Herbert Poems)
Away despair; my gracious Lord doth heare, Though windes and waves assault my keel, He doth preserve it: ...
The Invitation (George Herbert Poems)
Come ye hither all, whose taste Is your waste;Save ...
Christmas (George Herbert Poems)
After all pleasures as I rid one day, My horse and I, both tir'd, bodie and minde, With ...
Justice (II) (George Herbert Poems)
O Dreadfull Justice, what a fright and terrour ...
To All Angels And Saints (George Herbert Poems)
Oh glorious spirits, who after all your bandsSee the smooth face of God, without a frown ...
Artillerie (George Herbert Poems)
As I one ev'ning sat before my cell, Me thought a starre did shoot into my lap. I rose, and ...
Antiphon II. (George Herbert Poems)
Chor. Praised be the God of love, Men. Here below, ...
Sighs And Grones (George Herbert Poems)
O do not use meAfter my sinnes! look not on my desert,But on ...
The Bunch Of Grapes (George Herbert Poems)
Joy, I did lock thee up: but some bad man Hath let thee out again:And ...
Affliction (V) (George Herbert Poems)
My God, I read this day,That planted Paradise was not so firmAs ...
Vanitie (George Herbert Poems)
The fleet Astronomer can bore And thread the spheres with his quick-piercing minde He views theirs stations, walks ...
Divinitie (George Herbert Poems)
As men, for fear the starres should sleep and nod, And trip at night, have spheres supplied;As if a ...
A Sonnet, To His Mother As A New Year’s Gift From Cambridge (George Herbert Poems)
My God, where is that ancient heat towards thee, Wherewith whole shoals of martyrs once did burn, Besides their ...
Time (George Herbert Poems)
Meeting with Time, slack thing, said I, Thy sithe is dull; whet it for shame.No marvell Sir, he did replie,If ...
A True Hymne (George Herbert Poems)
My joy, my life, my crown! My heart was meaning all the day, ...
Mattens (George Herbert Poems)
I cannot ope mine eyes, But thou art ready there to catch My ...
Sinne’s Round (George Herbert Poems)
Sorrie I am, my God, sorrie I am, That my offences course it in a ring. My thoughts are working ...