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, ...
Deare friend, sit down, the tale is long and sad:And in my faintings I presume your loveWill more complie, then ...
When first thou didst entice to thee my heart, I thought the service brave;So many joyes I ...
Not in rich furniture, or fine array, Nor in a wedge of gold, ...
I travell'd on, seeing the hill, where lay My expectation. ...
Chor. Praised be the God of love, Men. Here below, ...
Lord, make me coy and tender to offend:In friendship, first I think, if that agree, ...
Come away, Make no delay.Summon all the dust to ...
When first my lines of heav'nly joyes made mention,Such was their lustre, they did so excell,That I sought out quaint ...
I threatned to observe the strict decree Of my deare God with all my power and might: ...
My words and thoughts do both expresse this notion,That Life hath with the sun a double motion.The first Is straight, ...
Not in rich furniture, or fine array, Nor in a wedge of gold, Thou, who from me wast sold, To ...
O day most calm, most bright The fruit of this, the next world's bud, Th'endorsement of supreme delight, Writ by ...
When thou didst entice to thee my heart, I thought the service brave: So many joys I writ down for ...
Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To ...
Oh King of grief! (a title strange, yet true, To thee of all kings only due) Oh King of wounds! ...
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