Sin (George Herbert Poem)
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws;-they send ...
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws;-they send ...
[The following explanation is necessary, in order to make this ode in any way intelligible. The Poet is supposed to ...
Boils and welts and warts bubbled on the trunk of the tree human afflictions on the bark and sinew the ...
All the saints and all the angels couldn't be more near and precious hoping hearts and pleading faces need you ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
Almighty Framer of the Skies! O let our pure devotion rise, Like Incense in thy Sight! Wrapt in impenetrable Shade ...
Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms ; And I fear, I ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
The shadowy Daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc, When fourteen suns had faintly journey'd o'er his dark abode: His ...
v.1,2,7-14 C. M. Saints chastised, and sinners destroyed; or, Instructive afflictions. O God, to whom revenge belongs, "Proclaim thy wrath ...
Afflictions and death under Providence. Job 5:6-8. Not from the dust affliction grows, Nor troubles rise by chance; Yet we ...
Benefit of afflictions, and support under them. ver. 153,81,82 Consider all my sorrows, Lord, And thy deliv'rance send; My soul ...
Prayer for quickening grace. ver. 25,37 My soul lies cleaving to the dust; Lord, give me life divine; From vain ...
Sanctified afflictions; or, Delight in the word of God. ver. 67,59 Father, I bless thy gentle hand; How kind was ...
Complaint of heavy afflictions in mind and body. My righteous Judge, my gracious God, Hear when I spread my hands ...
Governing power and goodness; or, Our graces tried by afflictions. Sing, all ye nations, to the Lord, Sing with a ...
Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. Let Shedeur ...
Mournful groans, as when a tempest lowers, Echo from the dreary house of woe; Death-notes rise from yonder minster's towers! ...
Strephon. You Gote-heard Gods, that loue the grassie mountaines, You Nimphes that haunt the springs in pleasant vallies, You Satyrs ...
Twice forty months of Wedlock did I stay, Then had my vows crown'd with a Lovely boy, And yet in ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
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