Sion (George Herbert Poems)
Lord, with what glorie wast thou serv'd of old,When Solomon's temple stood and flourished! Where most things were of ...
Lord, with what glorie wast thou serv'd of old,When Solomon's temple stood and flourished! Where most things were of ...
Of what an easie quick accesse,My blessed Lord, art thou! how suddenly May our requests thine eare ...
Almightie Judge, how shall poore wretches brook ...
Sweet were the dayes, when thou didst lodge with Lot,Struggle with Jacob, sit with Gideon,Advise with Abraham, when thy power ...
Philosophers have measur'd the mountains,Fathom'd the depths of the seas, of states, and kings,Walk'd with a staffe ...
Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round! Parents first season us: then schoolmasters Deliver us to ...
I know it is my sinne, which locks thine eares, And ...
King of glorie, King of peace,With the one make warre to cease;With the other blesse thy sheep,Thee to love, in ...
I cannot skill of these thy ways:Lord thou didst make me, yet you woundest me:Lord, thou dost ...
Come my Celia, let us prove,While wee may, the sports of love;Time will not be ours, for'ever:He, at length, our ...
O that I could a sinne once see! We paint the devil foul, yet he Hath ...
Lord, who hast formed me out of mud, And hast redeemed me through thy bloud, And sanctified me ...
Oh, that I could sinne once see!We paint the devil foul, yet heHath some good in him, all agree.Sinne is ...
O Sacred Providence, who from end to end Strongly and sweetly movest! shall I write, And not of thee, through ...
In Virgynë the sweltrie sun gan sheene, And hotte upon the mees did caste his raie; The apple rodded from ...
The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his ...
One pitt containes him now that could not dye Before a thousand pitts in him did lye; Soe many spotts ...
Though Death to good men be the greatest boone, I dare not think this Lady dyde so soone. She should ...
Meerly for man's death to mourne Were to repine that man was borne. When weake old age doth fall asleepe ...
Is Death so cunning now that all her blowe Aymes at the heade? Doth now her wary Bowe Make surer ...
As I out of a casement sent Mine eyes as wand'ring as my thought, Upon no certayne object bent, But ...
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