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, ...
Neere to the place where Nilus channels runne, There stood a town by loue long since vndone For ...
?neas read what Dido wrote, And sent her this replie;And sought to cure the curelesse wound,Which Dido made to die.When ...
Almightie Lord, who from thy glorious throneSeest and rulest all things ev'n as one:The smallest ant or atome knows thy ...
IN seventy five the Critick of our yearsCommenc'd our war with Phillip and his peers.Whither the sun in Leo had ...
When late Protectorship was Canon-Proof,And _Cap-a-pe_ had seiz'd on _Whitehall_-Roof,And next, on _Israelites_ durst look so big,That _Tory-like_, it lov'd ...
March: ?gloga Tertia. Willye & Thomalin.Willye.THomalin, why sytten we soe, As weren ouerwent with woe, Vpon so fayre a morow? ...
Fortune well-Pictur'd on a rolling Globe, With waving Locks, and thin transparent Robe, A Man beholding, to his Neighbor cry'd, ...
Busie enquiring heart, what wouldst thou know? Why dost thou prie,And turn, and leer, ...
Lord, I will mean and speak thy praise, Thy praise alone.My busie heart shall spin ...
How sweetly doth My Master sound! My Master! As amber-greese leaves a rich scent ...
He that is weary, let him sit. My soul would stirre And trade ...
Thou who condemnest Jewish hate,For choosing Barabbas a murderer Before the Lord ...
If as a flowre doth spread and die, Thou wouldst extend me to some good,Before I were frost's extremitie ...
Sorrie I am, my God, sorrie I am, That my offences course it in a ring. My thoughts are working ...
My God, a verse is not a crown; No point of honor, or gay suit;No hawk, or banquet, or ...
Were I (who to my cost already am One of those strange prodigious Creatures Man) A Spirit free, to choose ...
Renowned Champion full of wrestling Art, And made for victory in every part, Whose active Limbes, oyl'd Tongue, and vertuous ...
How vainly men themselves amaze To win the Palm, the Oke, or Bayes; And their uncessant Labours see Crown'd from ...
I It was the Winter wilde, While the Heav'n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature in aw ...
IT was the Winter wilde, While the Heav'n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature in aw to ...
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