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 ...
Content thee, greedie heart.Modest and moderate joyes to those, that haveTitle to more hereafter when ...
Lord, I will mean and speak thy praise, Thy praise alone.My busie heart shall spin ...
You who admire yourselves because You neither groan nor weep,And think it contrary to Nature's ...
O who will show me those delights on high? Echo. ...
Bright spark, shot from a brighter place, Where beams surround my Saviour's face, Canst thou ...
Joy, I did lock thee up: but some bad man Hath let thee out again:And ...
Soul's joy, when thou art gone, And I alone, ...
Thou who condemnest Jewish hate,For choosing Barabbas a murderer Before the Lord ...
My joy, my life, my crown! My heart was meaning all the day, ...
Poore silly soul, whose hope and head lies low;Whose flat delights on earth do creep and grow:To whom the starres ...
Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life:Such a Way, as gives us breath:Such a Truth, as ends all strife:Such a ...
As on a window late I cast mine eye,I saw a vine drop grapes with J and CAnneal'd on every ...
It cannot be. Where is that mighty joy, Which just now took up all my heart? Lord, if thou must ...
I joy, dear mother, when I view Thy perfect lineaments, and hue Both sweet and bright. Beauty in thee takes ...
If as a flower doth spread and die, Thou wouldst extend me to some good, Before I were by frost's ...
Lord, I confess my sin is great; Great is my sin. Oh! gently treat With thy quick flow'r, thy momentany ...
Wounded I sing, tormented I indite, Thrown down I fall into a bed, and rest: Sorrow hath chang'd its note: ...
Hark, how the birds do sing, And woods do ring! All creatures have their joy, and man hath his. Yet ...
Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age, Gods breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in ...
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