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 ...
O who will show me those delights on high? Echo. ...
Away despair; my gracious Lord doth heare, Though windes and waves assault my keel, He doth preserve it: ...
After all pleasures as I rid one day, My horse and I, both tir'd, bodie and minde, With ...
Bright spark, shot from a brighter place, Where beams surround my Saviour's face, Canst thou ...
Why do I languish thus, drooping and dulle, As if I were all earth?Oh give me ...
O do not use meAfter my sinnes! look not on my desert,But on ...
Oh Book! infinite sweetnesse! let my heart Suck ev'ry letter, and a hony gain, Precious for any grief ...
Soul's joy, when thou art gone, And I alone, ...
When first thy sweet and gracious eyeVouchsaf'd ev'n in the midst of youth and nightTo look upon ...
I cannot ope mine eyes, But thou art ready there to catch My ...
I threatned to observe the strict decree Of my deare God with all my power and might: ...
Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life:Such a Way, as gives us breath:Such a Truth, as ends all strife:Such a ...
Blest be the God of love, Who gave me eyes, and light, and power this day, Both to be busy, ...
O day most calm, most bright The fruit of this, the next world's bud, Th'endorsement of supreme delight, Writ by ...
O do not use me After my sins! look not on my dessert, But on your glory! Then you will ...
I cannot ope mine eyes, But thou art ready there to catch My morning-soul and sacrifice: Then we must needs ...
O Sacred Providence, who from end to end Strongly and sweetly movest! shall I write, And not of thee, through ...
Listen sweet Dove unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till ...
My God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately habitation, But he that means to dwell therein. ...
Holiness on the head, Light and perfection on the breast, Harmonious bells below, raising the dead To led them unto ...
Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word? He is a brittle crazie glasse: Yet in thy temple thou dost ...
Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To ...
Welcome dear feast of Lent: who loves not thee, He loves not Temperance, or Authority, But is compos'd of passion. ...
I Got me flowers to straw Thy way, I got me boughs off many a tree; But Thou wast up ...
How fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean Are thy returns! ev'n as the flowers in spring; To which, besides ...
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