Easter Wings (George Herbert Poem)
Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till he ...
Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till he ...
I "O Time, whence comes the Mother's moody look amid her labours, As of one who all unwittingly has wounded ...
THE MAIDEN. I'VE seen him before me! What rapture steals o'er me! Oh heavenly sight! He's coming to meet me; ...
Then a ploughman said, "Speak to us of Work." And he answered, saying: You work that you may keep pace ...
Like the admonition to pray in our closet to not don ashes but put oil on our faces to be ...
A choice each morning all through our days choosing to live in the grace of God Deciding to be happy ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
Eternal and all-working God, which wast Before the world, whose frame by Thee was cast, And beautified with beamful lamps ...
To see her is a Picture -- To hear her is a Tune -- To know her an Intemperance As ...
So gay a Flower Bereaves the Mind As if it were a Woe -- Is Beauty an Affliction -- then? ...
Not so the infinite Relations -- Below Division is Adhesion's forfeit -- On High Affliction but a Speculation -- And ...
Despair's advantage is achieved By suffering -- Despair -- To be assisted of Reverse One must Reverse have bore -- ...
As Frost is best conceived By force of its Result -- Affliction is inferred By subsequent effect -- If when ...
A nearness to Tremendousness -- An Agony procures -- Affliction ranges Boundlessness -- Vicinity to Laws Contentment's quiet Suburb -- ...
Severer Service of myself I -- hastened to demand To fill the awful Vacuum Your life had left behind -- ...
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons -- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes -- Heavenly Hurt, ...
Has life ever dumped you in a heap? Perhaps you've found self belief so strongly reinforcing that doubt never enters ...
Should you be allowed sole privilege of unconscionable martyrdom? This affliction is self-pity brought by suffering as penitent to unrequited ...
Why can't I keep out of harm's way? Am I so preoccupied, simultaneously looking ahead, concurrently looking behind; concerned to ...
The West Village by then was changing; before long the rundown brownstones at its farthest edge would have slipped into ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
'Tis my happiness below Not to live without the cross, But the Saviour's power to know, Sanctifying every loss; Trials ...
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall The crash ...
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
I Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep ...
WAE worth thy power, thou cursed leaf! Fell source o' a' my woe and grief! For lack o' thee I've ...
YE Irish lords, ye knights an' squires, Wha represent our brughs an' shires, An' doucely manage our affairs In parliament, ...
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