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 World (27 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 ...
Longing (George Herbert Poems)
With sick and famisht eyes,With doubling knees and weary bones, ...
Home (George Herbert Poems)
Come, Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick, While thou dost ever, ever stay:Thy long deferrings ...
Affliction (I) (George Herbert Poems)
When first thou didst entice to thee my heart, I thought the service brave;So many joyes I ...
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 ...
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: ...
Frailtie (George Herbert Poems)
Lord, in my silence how do I despise What ...
The Rose (George Herbert Poems)
Presse me not to take more pleasure In this world of sugred lies,And to use a larger measure ...
Self-Condemnation (George Herbert Poems)
Thou who condemnest Jewish hate,For choosing Barabbas a murderer Before the Lord ...
Dooms-Day (George Herbert Poems)
Come away, Make no delay.Summon all the dust to ...
Decay (George Herbert Poems)
Sweet were the dayes, when thou didst lodge with Lot,Struggle with Jacob, sit with Gideon,Advise with Abraham, when thy power ...
Antiphon I. (George Herbert Poems)
Cho. Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing, ...
The Water-Course (George Herbert Poems)
Thou who dost dwell and linger here below,Since the condition of this world is frail,Where of all plants afflictions soonest ...
Providence (George Herbert Poem)
O Sacred Providence, who from end to end Strongly and sweetly movest! shall I write, And not of thee, through ...
Affliction (George Herbert Poem)
When thou didst entice to thee my heart, I thought the service brave: So many joys I writ down for ...
Whitsunday (George Herbert Poem)
Listen sweet Dove unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till ...
Antiphon (I) (George Herbert Poem)
Chorus: Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing 'My God and King.' Verse: The heav'ns are not too high, ...
Love (II) (George Herbert Poem)
Immortal Heat, O let thy greater flame Attract the lesser to it: let those fires Which shall consume the world, ...
Man (George Herbert Poem)
My God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately habitation, But he that means to dwell therein. ...
The Temper (George Herbert Poem)
How should I praise thee, Lord! how should my rhymes Gladly engrave thy love in steel, If what my soul ...
Love (I) (George Herbert Poem)
Immortal love, authour of this great frame, Sprung from that beautie which can never fade; How hath man parcel'd out ...
The Sacrifice (George Herbert Poem)
Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To ...
The Thanksgiving (George Herbert Poem)
Oh King of grief! (a title strange, yet true, To thee of all kings only due) Oh King of wounds! ...
The Flower (George Herbert Poem)
How fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean Are thy returns! ev'n as the flowers in spring; To which, besides ...
The Pearl (George Herbert Poem)
The Kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; who, when he had found one, sold ...
The Pulley (George Herbert Poem)
When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, Let us (said He) pour on him ...