Preface to God’s Determinations Touching His Elect (Edward Taylor Poems)
Infinity, when all things it beheldIn Nothing, and of Nothing all did build,Upon what base was fixed the lath whereinHe ...
Infinity, when all things it beheldIn Nothing, and of Nothing all did build,Upon what base was fixed the lath whereinHe ...
(Canticles 6:10. Who is She that Looks Forth as the Morning,Fair as the Moon, Clear as the Sun, Terrible as ...
(I John 2:1. If any Man Sin, We Have an Advocate)My sin! My sin, my God, these cursed dregs,Green, yellow, ...
A Curious Knot God made in Paradise, And drew it out inamled neatly Fresh.It was the True-Love Knot, more ...
I kening through Astronomy Divine The Worlds bright Battlement, wherein I spyA Golden Path my Pensill cannot line, ...
(Psalms 105:17. He sent a Man before Them, even Joseph, who was Sold, etc.)All dull, my Lord, my spirits flat, ...
(I. Corinthians 3:22. Whether Paul or Apollos, or Cephas)Thy grace, dear Lord, 's my golden wrack, I find,Screwing my fancy ...
Infinity, when all things it beheldIn Nothing, and of Nothing all did build,Upon what Base was fixt the Lath whereinHe ...
Philippians II: 9: Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him.View, all ye eyes above, this sight which flingsSeraphick Phancies in ...
(John. 20:17. My Father, and your Father, to my God, and your God)My shattered fancy stole away from me(Wits run ...
Infinity, when all things it beheldIn Nothing, and of Nothing all did build,Upon what base was fixed the lath whereinHe ...
(Ezekiel 37:24. David my Servant shall be their King)Dull, dull indeed! What, shall it e'er be thus? And why? Are ...
The bear that breathes the northern blastDid numb, torpedo-like, a waspWhose stiffened limbs encramped, lay bathingIn Sol's warm breath and ...
(Romans 5:14. Who is the Figure of Him that was to Come)Like to the marigold, I blushing closeMy golden blossoms ...
Second SeriesCanticle 1: 12: While the king sitteth at his table,my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.Oh! thou, my Lord, ...
Lord, can a crumb of dust the earth outweigh,Outmatch all mountains, nay the crystal sky?Imbosom in't designs that shall displayAnd ...
(Canticles 6:13. Return, oh Shulamite, Return, Return)My dear, dear Lord, I know not what to say:Speech is too coarse a ...
In heaven soaring up, I dropped an earOn earth: and Oh, sweet melody:And listening, found it was the saints who ...
Make me, O Lord, Thy spinning-wheel complete.Thy holy word my distaff make for me.Make mine affections Thy swift flyers neatAnd ...
What love is this of Thine that cannot beIn Thine infinity, O Lord, confined,Unless it in Thy very person seeInfinity ...
(Canticles 2:1. The Lily of the Valleys)Am I Thy gold? Or purse, Lord, for Thy wealth;Whether in mine or mint ...
When first Thou on me, Lord, wroughtest Thy sweet print,My heart was made Thy tinder-box,My 'ffections were Thy tinder in't,Where ...
There's a fortune to be made in just about everything in this country, somebody's father had to invent everything--baby food, ...
I swerved to avoid hitting a squirrel in the center of the road and that's when the deer came charging ...
I sit on the tracks, a hundred feet from earth, fifty from the water. Gerald is inching toward me as ...
The bear that breathes the northern blast Did numb, torpedo-like, a wasp Whose stiffened limbs encramped, lay bathing In Sol's ...
Jim just loves to garden, yes he does. He likes nothing better than to put on his little overalls and ...
Some people go their whole lives without ever writing a single poem. Extraordinary people who don't hesitate to cut somebody's ...
It seemed as if the enormous journey was finally approaching its conclusion. From the window of the train the last ...
They ask me if I've ever thought about the end of the world, and I say, "Come in, come in, ...
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