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''A servant with this clause
Makes drudgery divine:
Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws
Makes that and th' action fine.''
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet, clergyman. repr. In The Works of George Herbert, ed. Helen Gardner (1961). The Elixir, st. 5, The Temple (16...
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''A man that looks on glass,
On it may stay his eye;
Or if he pleaseth, through it pass,
And then the heaven espy.''
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet, clergyman. repr. In The Works of George Herbert, ed. Helen Gardner (1961). The Elixir, The Temple (1633).
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''These are thy wonders, Lord of love,
To make us see we are but flowers that glide.
Which when we once can finde and prove,
Thou hast a garden for us where to bide.''
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Flower (l. 43-46). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin B...
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''These are thy wonders, Lord of power,
Killing and quickning, bringing down to hell
And up to heaven in an houre;
Making a chiming of a passing-bell.''
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Flower (l. 15-18). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin B...
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''Who would have thought my shrivelled heart
Could have recovered greenness?''
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet, clergyman. repr. In The Works of George Herbert, ed. Helen Gardner (1961). The Flower, st. 2, The Temple (16...
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''Thy word is all, if we could spell.''
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Flower (l. 21). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Book...
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''Lovely enchanting language, sugar-cane,
Honey of roses, wither wilt thou fly?''
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Forerunners (l. 19-20). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Peng...
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''True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame
But borrowed thence to light us thither.
Beauty and beauteous words should go together.''
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Forerunners (l. 28-30). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Peng...
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''Go, birds of spring: let winter have his fee;
Let a bleak paleness chalk the door,
So all within be livelier than before.''
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Forerunners (l. 34-36). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Peng...
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The harbingers are come. See, see their mark:
White is their color, and behold my head.
But must they have my brain? Must they dispark
Those sparkling notions, which therein were bred?
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Forerunners (l. 1-6). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Pengui...
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Vanity (I)
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The fleet astronomer can bore
And thread the spheres with his quick-piercing mind:
He views theirs stations, walks from door to door,
Surveys, as if he had designed
To make a purchase there: he sees their dances,
And knoweth long before,
Both their full-eyed aspects, and secret glances.
The nimble diver with his side
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