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, ...
With sick and famisht eyes,With doubling knees and weary bones, ...
Lord, let the Angels praise thy name.Man is a foolish thing, a foolish thing, Folly and Sinne ...
When first thou didst entice to thee my heart, I thought the service brave;So many joyes I ...
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 ...
O who will show me those delights on high? Echo. ...
Lord, make me coy and tender to offend:In friendship, first I think, if that agree, ...
My God, I read this day,That planted Paradise was not so firmAs ...
I BLESSE thee, Lord, because I G R O WAmong thy trees, which in a R O WTo thee both ...
O Sacred Providence, who from end to end Strongly and sweetly movest! shall I write, And not of thee, through ...
When thou didst entice to thee my heart, I thought the service brave: So many joys I writ down for ...
My God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately habitation, But he that means to dwell therein. ...
Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To ...
Lord, how couldst thou so much appease Thy wrath for sin, as when man's sight was dim, And could see ...
I Got me flowers to straw Thy way, I got me boughs off many a tree; But Thou wast up ...
When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, Let us (said He) pour on him ...
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