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 ...
Busie enquiring heart, what wouldst thou know? Why dost thou prie,And turn, and leer, ...
Blest Order, which in power dost so excell,That with th' one hand thou liftest to the sky,And with the other ...
When my devotions could not pierce Thy silent ...
Whither away, Delight?Thou cam'st but now; wilt thou so soon depart, And ...
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, ...
While that my soul repairs to her devotion,Here I entombe my flesh, that it betimesMay take acquaintance of this heap ...
As he that sees a dark and shadie grove, Stayes not, but looks beyond it on the skie; ...
Sacred marble, safely keep,His dust, who under thee must sleep,Until the years again restoreTheir dead, and time shall be no ...
O day most calm, most bright The fruit of this, the next world's bud, Th'endorsement of supreme delight, Writ by ...
When my devotions could not pierce Thy silent ears; Then was my heart broken, as was my verse: My breast ...
As he that sees a dark and shady grove, Stays not, but looks beyond it on the sky; So when ...
While that my soul repairs to her devotion, Here I intomb my flesh, that it betimes May take acquaintance of ...
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