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''Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age,
Gods breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth;''
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Temple (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bulloug...
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''Church-bels beyond the starres heard, the souls bloud,
The land of spices; something understood.''
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Temple (l. 13-14). . .
Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullo...
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''The six-daies world-transposing in an houre,
A kinde of tune, which all things heare and fear;''
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Temple (l. 7-8). . .
Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bulloug...
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''Having been tenant long to a rich Lord,
Not thriving, I resolved to be bold,
And make a suit unto him, to afford
A new small-rented lease, and cancel th' old.''
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Temple (l. 1-4). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Boo...
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Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word?
He is a brittle crazie glasse:
Yet in thy temple thou dost him afford
This glorious and transcendent place,
To be a window, through thy ...
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Windows (l. 1-5). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Bo...
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''all must die.
Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like seasoned timber, never gives;
But though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives.''
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Virtue (l. 12-16). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books...
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''Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie;
My music shows ye have your closes,
And all must die.''
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet, clergyman. repr. In The Works of George Herbert, ed. Helen Gardner (1961). Virtue, st. 3, The Temple (1633)....
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''Christ is my onely head,
My alone onely heart and breast,
My onely musick, striking me ev'n dead;''
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Aaron (l. 16-18). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books....
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''Holinesse on the head,
Light and perfections on the breast,
Harmonious bells below, raising the dead
To leade them unto life and rest.
Thus are true Aarons drest.''
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Aaron (l. 1-5). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books.
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''Thus thinne and lean without a fence or friend,
I was blown through with ev'ry storm and winde.''
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George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Affliction (l. 35-36). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed...
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