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, ...
Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhanceThy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure,Hearken unto a Vesper, ...
Almightie Lord, who from thy glorious throneSeest and rulest all things ev'n as one:The smallest ant or atome knows thy ...
With sick and famisht eyes,With doubling knees and weary bones, ...
Come, Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick, While thou dost ever, ever stay:Thy long deferrings ...
Whither, O, whither art thou fled, My Lord, my Love?My searches ...
Deare friend, sit down, the tale is long and sad:And in my faintings I presume your loveWill more complie, then ...
My God, if writings may Convey a Lordship any wayWhither the buyer and the ...
And art thou grieved, sweet and sacred Dove, When I am ...
Come ye hither all, whose taste Is your waste;Save ...
Bright spark, shot from a brighter place, Where beams surround my Saviour's face, Canst thou ...
Chor. Praised be the God of love, Men. Here below, ...
Why do I languish thus, drooping and dulle, As if I were all earth?Oh give me ...
Poore heart, lament,For since thy God refuseth still,There is some rub, some discontent, ...
King of glorie, King of peace, I will love thee:And that ...
Lord, in my silence how do I despise What ...
Joy, I did lock thee up: but some bad man Hath let thee out again:And ...
When first thy sweet and gracious eyeVouchsaf'd ev'n in the midst of youth and nightTo look upon ...
As men, for fear the starres should sleep and nod, And trip at night, have spheres supplied;As if a ...
Thou who condemnest Jewish hate,For choosing Barabbas a murderer Before the Lord ...
My joy, my life, my crown! My heart was meaning all the day, ...
Of what an easie quick accesse,My blessed Lord, art thou! how suddenly May our requests thine eare ...
Philosophers have measur'd the mountains,Fathom'd the depths of the seas, of states, and kings,Walk'd with a staffe ...
The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed:While he is mine, and I am ...
When first my lines of heav'nly joyes made mention,Such was their lustre, they did so excell,That I sought out quaint ...
Sweetest of sweets, I thank you: when displeasure Did through my bodie wound my minde,You took ...
King of glorie, King of peace,With the one make warre to cease;With the other blesse thy sheep,Thee to love, in ...
Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life:Such a Way, as gives us breath:Such a Truth, as ends all strife:Such a ...
Blest be the God of love, Who gave me eyes, and light, and power this day, Both to be busy, ...
O who will give me tears? Come, all ye springs, Dwell in my head and eyes; come, clouds and rain; ...
Listen sweet Dove unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till ...
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