The Holy Communion (George Herbert Poems)
Not in rich furniture, or fine array, Nor in a wedge of gold, ...
Not in rich furniture, or fine array, Nor in a wedge of gold, ...
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 ...
Come ye hither all, whose taste Is your waste;Save ...
King of glorie, King of peace, I will love thee:And that ...
Canst be idle? canst thou play, Foolish soul who sinn'd to-day?Rivers ...
O do not use meAfter my sinnes! look not on my desert,But on ...
Lord, with what bountie and rare clemencie Hast thou redeem'd us from the grave! If ...
O What a cunning guestIs this same Grief! Within my heart I made Closets; ...
Good, and great God, can I not think of thee, But it must, straight, my melancholy bee?Is it interpreted in ...
I have consider'd it, and findeThere is no dealing with Thy mighty passion:For though I ...
When blessed Marie wip'd her Saviour's feet,(Whose precepts she had trampled on before)And wore them for a jewell on her ...
Thou who dost dwell and linger here below,Since the condition of this world is frail,Where of all plants afflictions soonest ...
Sorrie I am, my God, sorrie I am, That my offences course it in a ring. My thoughts are working ...
As he that sees a dark and shadie grove, Stayes not, but looks beyond it on the skie; ...
I know it is my sinne, which locks thine eares, And ...
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 ...
THe weary yeare his race now hauing run, The new begins his compast course anew: with shew of morning mylde ...
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