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 ...
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 ...
Come, Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick, While thou dost ever, ever stay:Thy long deferrings ...
Whither, O, whither art thou fled, My Lord, my Love?My searches ...
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, ...
When first thou didst entice to thee my heart, I thought the service brave;So many joyes I ...
Content thee, greedie heart.Modest and moderate joyes to those, that haveTitle to more hereafter when ...
Welcome sweet and sacred cheer, Welcome deare;With me, in ...
Lord, I will mean and speak thy praise, Thy praise alone.My busie heart shall spin ...
O Spitefull bitter thought!Bitterly spitefull thought! Couldst thou inventSo high a torture? Is ...
Come, bring thy gift. If blessings were as slowAs men's returns, what would become of fools?What hast thou there? a ...
Not in rich furniture, or fine array, Nor in a wedge of gold, ...
You who admire yourselves because You neither groan nor weep,And think it contrary to Nature's ...
I travell'd on, seeing the hill, where lay My expectation. ...
My God, if writings may Convey a Lordship any wayWhither the buyer and the ...
Blest Order, which in power dost so excell,That with th' one hand thou liftest to the sky,And with the other ...
And art thou grieved, sweet and sacred Dove, When I am ...
O who will show me those delights on high? Echo. ...
Thou that hast giv'n so much to me,Give one thing more, a grateful heart.See how thy beggar works on thee ...
I saw the Vertues sitting hand in handIn sev'rall ranks upon an azure throne,Where all the beasts and fowls, by ...
Who is the honest man?He that doth still and strongly good pursue,To God, his neighbour, and himself most true: ...
When my devotions could not pierce Thy silent ...
Away despair; my gracious Lord doth heare, Though windes and waves assault my keel, He doth preserve it: ...
Come ye hither all, whose taste Is your waste;Save ...
How sweetly doth My Master sound! My Master! As amber-greese leaves a rich scent ...
After all pleasures as I rid one day, My horse and I, both tir'd, bodie and minde, With ...
O Dreadfull Justice, what a fright and terrour ...
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