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 (195 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, ...
Miserie (George Herbert Poems)
Lord, let the Angels praise thy name.Man is a foolish thing, a foolish thing, Folly and Sinne ...
Home (George Herbert Poems)
Come, Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick, While thou dost ever, ever stay:Thy long deferrings ...
The Search (George Herbert Poems)
Whither, O, whither art thou fled, My Lord, my Love?My searches ...
Love Unknown (George Herbert Poems)
Deare friend, sit down, the tale is long and sad:And in my faintings I presume your loveWill more complie, then ...
The Discharge (George Herbert Poems)
Busie enquiring heart, what wouldst thou know? Why dost thou prie,And turn, and leer, ...
Affliction (I) (George Herbert Poems)
When first thou didst entice to thee my heart, I thought the service brave;So many joyes I ...
The Size (George Herbert Poems)
Content thee, greedie heart.Modest and moderate joyes to those, that haveTitle to more hereafter when ...
The Banquet (George Herbert Poems)
Welcome sweet and sacred cheer, Welcome deare;With me, in ...
Praise (III) (George Herbert Poems)
Lord, I will mean and speak thy praise, Thy praise alone.My busie heart shall spin ...
Assurance (George Herbert Poems)
O Spitefull bitter thought!Bitterly spitefull thought! Couldst thou inventSo high a torture? Is ...
An Offering (George Herbert Poems)
Come, bring thy gift. If blessings were as slowAs men's returns, what would become of fools?What hast thou there? a ...
The Holy Communion (George Herbert Poems)
Not in rich furniture, or fine array, Nor in a wedge of gold, ...
A Paradox, That The Sick Are In A Better Case Than The Whole (George Herbert Poems)
You who admire yourselves because You neither groan nor weep,And think it contrary to Nature's ...
The Pilgrimage (George Herbert Poems)
I travell'd on, seeing the hill, where lay My expectation. ...
Obedience (George Herbert Poems)
My God, if writings may Convey a Lordship any wayWhither the buyer and the ...
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 ...
Ephesians IV. 30. “Grieve Not The Holy Spirit, &c.” (George Herbert Poems)
And art thou grieved, sweet and sacred Dove, When I am ...
Heaven (George Herbert Poems)
O who will show me those delights on high? Echo. ...
Gratefulnesse (George Herbert Poems)
Thou that hast giv'n so much to me,Give one thing more, a grateful heart.See how thy beggar works on thee ...
Humilitie (George Herbert Poems)
I saw the Vertues sitting hand in handIn sev'rall ranks upon an azure throne,Where all the beasts and fowls, by ...
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: ...
Deniall (George Herbert Poems)
When my devotions could not pierce Thy silent ...
The Bag (George Herbert Poems)
Away despair; my gracious Lord doth heare, Though windes and waves assault my keel, He doth preserve it: ...
The Invitation (George Herbert Poems)
Come ye hither all, whose taste Is your waste;Save ...
Justice (II) (George Herbert Poems)
O Dreadfull Justice, what a fright and terrour ...
The Odour. 2 Cor. II. (George Herbert Poems)
How sweetly doth My Master sound! My Master! As amber-greese leaves a rich scent ...
Christmas (George Herbert Poems)
After all pleasures as I rid one day, My horse and I, both tir'd, bodie and minde, With ...