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, ...
Almightie Lord, who from thy glorious throneSeest and rulest all things ev'n as one:The smallest ant or atome knows thy ...
Lord, let the Angels praise thy name.Man is a foolish thing, a foolish thing, Folly and Sinne ...
Come, Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick, While thou dost ever, ever stay:Thy long deferrings ...
Whither, O, whither art thou fled, My Lord, my Love?My searches ...
Busie enquiring heart, what wouldst thou know? Why dost thou prie,And turn, and leer, ...
When first thou didst entice to thee my heart, I thought the service brave;So many joyes I ...
Welcome sweet and sacred cheer, Welcome deare;With me, in ...
My God, if writings may Convey a Lordship any wayWhither the buyer and the ...
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 ...
Who is the honest man?He that doth still and strongly good pursue,To God, his neighbour, and himself most true: ...
When my devotions could not pierce Thy silent ...
Away despair; my gracious Lord doth heare, Though windes and waves assault my keel, He doth preserve it: ...
Come ye hither all, whose taste Is your waste;Save ...
After all pleasures as I rid one day, My horse and I, both tir'd, bodie and minde, With ...
O Dreadfull Justice, what a fright and terrour ...
Oh glorious spirits, who after all your bandsSee the smooth face of God, without a frown ...
As I one ev'ning sat before my cell, Me thought a starre did shoot into my lap. I rose, and ...
Chor. Praised be the God of love, Men. Here below, ...
O do not use meAfter my sinnes! look not on my desert,But on ...
Joy, I did lock thee up: but some bad man Hath let thee out again:And ...
My God, I read this day,That planted Paradise was not so firmAs ...
The fleet Astronomer can bore And thread the spheres with his quick-piercing minde He views theirs stations, walks ...
As men, for fear the starres should sleep and nod, And trip at night, have spheres supplied;As if a ...
My God, where is that ancient heat towards thee, Wherewith whole shoals of martyrs once did burn, Besides their ...
Meeting with Time, slack thing, said I, Thy sithe is dull; whet it for shame.No marvell Sir, he did replie,If ...
My joy, my life, my crown! My heart was meaning all the day, ...
I cannot ope mine eyes, But thou art ready there to catch My ...
Sorrie I am, my God, sorrie I am, That my offences course it in a ring. My thoughts are working ...
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