The Water-Course (George Herbert Poems)
Thou who dost dwell and linger here below,Since the condition of this world is frail,Where of all plants afflictions soonest ...
Thou who dost dwell and linger here below,Since the condition of this world is frail,Where of all plants afflictions soonest ...
Think you we slept within the Delphic bower,What time our victim sought Apollo's grace?Nay, drawn into ourselves, in that deep ...
Not so in haste, my heart!Have faith in God and wait;Although He linger long,He never comes too late.He never cometh ...
Chill frost will nip the fairest flower;The sweetest dream is soonest pass'd;The brightest morning in an hour,May be with storm ...
May is Mary's month, and I Muse at that and wonder why: Her feasts follow reason, Dated due to season- ...
May is Mary's month, and I Muse at that and wonder why: Her feasts follow reason, Dated due to season- ...
A Quack, to no true Skill in Physick bred, With frequent Visits cursed his Patient's Bed; Enquiring, how he did ...
Farewell, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own; For sure our souls ...
She's dead; and all which die To their first elements resolve; And we were mutual elements to us, And made ...
Death, be not proud, though some have callèd thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom ...
Contained in this short Life Are magical extents The soul returning soft at night To steal securer thence As Children ...
My Heart ran so to thee It would not wait for me And I affronted grew And drew away For ...
If I could bribe them by a Rose I'd bring them every flower that grows From Amherst to Cashmere! I ...
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
The wind, that beats the mountain, blows More softly round the open wold, And gently comes the world to those ...
WEake is th'assurance that weake flesh reposeth, In her owne powre and scorneth others ayde: that soonest fals when as ...
Swift as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory & of good, the Sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his ...
LUBIN and KATE, as gossips tell, Were Lovers many a day; LUBIN the damsel lov'd so well, That folks pretend ...
Oh! think not my spirits are always as light, And as free from a pang as they seem to you ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
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