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 ...
When first thou didst entice to thee my heart, I thought the service brave;So many joyes I ...
Welcome sweet and sacred cheer, Welcome deare;With me, in ...
O Spitefull bitter thought!Bitterly spitefull thought! Couldst thou inventSo high a torture? Is ...
Blest Order, which in power dost so excell,That with th' one hand thou liftest to the sky,And with the other ...
Away despair; my gracious Lord doth heare, Though windes and waves assault my keel, He doth preserve it: ...
Oh glorious spirits, who after all your bandsSee the smooth face of God, without a frown ...
Oh, what a thing is man! how farre from power, From setled peace ...
Poore heart, lament,For since thy God refuseth still,There is some rub, some discontent, ...
Of what an easie quick accesse,My blessed Lord, art thou! how suddenly May our requests thine eare ...
Sweet were the dayes, when thou didst lodge with Lot,Struggle with Jacob, sit with Gideon,Advise with Abraham, when thy power ...
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 ...
Wounded I sing, tormented I indite, Thrown down I fall into a bed, and rest: Sorrow hath chang'd its note: ...
How fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean Are thy returns! ev'n as the flowers in spring; To which, besides ...
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