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 ...
With sick and famisht eyes,With doubling knees and weary bones, ...
Lord, let the Angels praise thy name.Man is a foolish thing, a foolish thing, Folly and Sinne ...
Not in rich furniture, or fine array, Nor in a wedge of gold, ...
A broken A L T A R, Lord, thy servant reares,Made of a heart, and cemented with teares: Whose ...
My God, where is that ancient heat towards thee, Wherewith whole shoals of martyrs once did burn, Besides their ...
Sweetest Saviour, if my soul Were but worth the having,Quickly should I then controll ...
The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed:While he is mine, and I am ...
As he that sees a dark and shadie grove, Stayes not, but looks beyond it on the skie; ...
Jesu is in my heart, his sacred nameIs deeply carved there; but th' other weekA great affliction broke the little ...
Not in rich furniture, or fine array, Nor in a wedge of gold, Thou, who from me wast sold, To ...
Man. SWEETEST Saviour, if my soul Were but worth the having, Quickly should I then control Any thought of waving. ...
Listen sweet Dove unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till ...
My God, where is that ancient heat towards thee, Wherewith whole showls of Martyrs once did burn, Besides their other ...
Immortal love, authour of this great frame, Sprung from that beautie which can never fade; How hath man parcel'd out ...
As he that sees a dark and shady grove, Stays not, but looks beyond it on the sky; So when ...
Oh King of grief! (a title strange, yet true, To thee of all kings only due) Oh King of wounds! ...
A broken ALTAR, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart and cemented with tears; Whose parts are as thy ...
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