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, ...
Come, Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick, While thou dost ever, ever stay:Thy long deferrings ...
When first thou didst entice to thee my heart, I thought the service brave;So many joyes I ...
Blest Order, which in power dost so excell,That with th' one hand thou liftest to the sky,And with the other ...
Who is the honest man?He that doth still and strongly good pursue,To God, his neighbour, and himself most true: ...
Lord, in my silence how do I despise What ...
Presse me not to take more pleasure In this world of sugred lies,And to use a larger measure ...
Thou who condemnest Jewish hate,For choosing Barabbas a murderer Before the Lord ...
Come away, Make no delay.Summon all the dust to ...
Sweet were the dayes, when thou didst lodge with Lot,Struggle with Jacob, sit with Gideon,Advise with Abraham, when thy power ...
Cho. Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing, ...
Thou who dost dwell and linger here below,Since the condition of this world is frail,Where of all plants afflictions soonest ...
O Sacred Providence, who from end to end Strongly and sweetly movest! shall I write, And not of thee, through ...
When thou didst entice to thee my heart, I thought the service brave: So many joys I writ down for ...
Listen sweet Dove unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till ...
Chorus: Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing 'My God and King.' Verse: The heav'ns are not too high, ...
Immortal Heat, O let thy greater flame Attract the lesser to it: let those fires Which shall consume the world, ...
My God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately habitation, But he that means to dwell therein. ...
Immortal love, authour of this great frame, Sprung from that beautie which can never fade; How hath man parcel'd out ...
How should I praise thee, Lord! how should my rhymes Gladly engrave thy love in steel, If what my soul ...
Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To ...
Oh King of grief! (a title strange, yet true, To thee of all kings only due) Oh King of wounds! ...
How fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean Are thy returns! ev'n as the flowers in spring; To which, besides ...
The Kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; who, when he had found one, sold ...
When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, Let us (said He) pour on him ...
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