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 ...
Lord, let the Angels praise thy name.Man is a foolish thing, a foolish thing, Folly and Sinne ...
Come, Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick, While thou dost ever, ever stay:Thy long deferrings ...
Deare friend, sit down, the tale is long and sad:And in my faintings I presume your loveWill more complie, then ...
Busie enquiring heart, what wouldst thou know? Why dost thou prie,And turn, and leer, ...
O Spitefull bitter thought!Bitterly spitefull thought! Couldst thou inventSo high a torture? Is ...
My God, if writings may Convey a Lordship any wayWhither the buyer and the ...
Who is the honest man?He that doth still and strongly good pursue,To God, his neighbour, and himself most true: ...
Away despair; my gracious Lord doth heare, Though windes and waves assault my keel, He doth preserve it: ...
After all pleasures as I rid one day, My horse and I, both tir'd, bodie and minde, With ...
Oh, what a thing is man! how farre from power, From setled peace ...
Chor. Praised be the God of love, Men. Here below, ...
Poore heart, lament,For since thy God refuseth still,There is some rub, some discontent, ...
Lord, with what bountie and rare clemencie Hast thou redeem'd us from the grave! If ...
O What a cunning guestIs this same Grief! Within my heart I made Closets; ...
He that is weary, let him sit. My soul would stirre And trade ...
The fleet Astronomer can bore And thread the spheres with his quick-piercing minde He views theirs stations, walks ...
As men, for fear the starres should sleep and nod, And trip at night, have spheres supplied;As if a ...
Come away, Make no delay.Summon all the dust to ...
Meeting with Time, slack thing, said I, Thy sithe is dull; whet it for shame.No marvell Sir, he did replie,If ...
Sweetest Saviour, if my soul Were but worth the having,Quickly should I then controll ...
To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise; ...
I cannot ope mine eyes, But thou art ready there to catch My ...
False glozing pleasures, casks of happinesse,Foolish night-fires, women's and children's wishes,Chases in arras, guilded emptinesse,Shadows well mounted, dreams in a ...
I have consider'd it, and findeThere is no dealing with Thy mighty passion:For though I ...
Thou who dost dwell and linger here below,Since the condition of this world is frail,Where of all plants afflictions soonest ...
Philosophers have measur'd the mountains,Fathom'd the depths of the seas, of states, and kings,Walk'd with a staffe ...
Money, thou bane of blisse, and source of wo, Whence com'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine? ...
Let forrain nations of their language boast,What fine varietie each tongue affords:I like our language, as our men and coast;Who ...
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