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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."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet, clergyman. repr. In The Works of George Herbert, ed. Helen Gardner (1961). The Elixir, st. 5, The Temple (1633). |
"A man that looks on glass,
On it may stay his eye;
Or if he pleaseth, through it pass,
And then the heaven espy."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet, clergyman. repr. In The Works of George Herbert, ed. Helen Gardner (1961). The Elixir, The Temple (1633). |
"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."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Flower (l. 43-46). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"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."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Flower (l. 15-18). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"Who would have thought my shrivelled heart
Could have recovered greenness?"
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet, clergyman. repr. In The Works of George Herbert, ed. Helen Gardner (1961). The Flower, st. 2, The Temple (1633). |
"Thy word is all, if we could spell."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Flower (l. 21). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"Lovely enchanting language, sugar-cane,
Honey of roses, wither wilt thou fly?"
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Forerunners (l. 19-20). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame
But borrowed thence to light us thither.
Beauty and beauteous words should go together."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Forerunners (l. 28-30). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"Go, birds of spring: let winter have his fee;
Let a bleak paleness chalk the door,
So all within be livelier than before."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Forerunners (l. 34-36). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"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?
Must dullness turn me to a clod?
Yet have they left me, Thou art still my God."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Forerunners (l. 1-6). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
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