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, ...
Not in rich furniture, or fine array, Nor in a wedge of gold, ...
I travell'd on, seeing the hill, where lay My expectation. ...
How sweetly doth My Master sound! My Master! As amber-greese leaves a rich scent ...
What is this strange and uncouth thingTo make me sigh, and seek, and faint, and die,Untill I ...
Lord, in my silence how do I despise What ...
Of what an easie quick accesse,My blessed Lord, art thou! how suddenly May our requests thine eare ...
Since, Lord, to thee A narrow way and little gateIs all ...
Money, thou bane of blisse, and source of wo, Whence com'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine? ...
Not in rich furniture, or fine array, Nor in a wedge of gold, Thou, who from me wast sold, To ...
Oh King of grief! (a title strange, yet true, To thee of all kings only due) Oh King of wounds! ...
Since, Lord, to thee A narrow way and little gate Is all the passage, on my infancy Thou didst lay ...
Having been tenant long to a rich lord, Not thriving, I resolved to be bold, And make a suit unto ...
When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, Let us (said He) pour on him ...
Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till he ...
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