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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;"
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Temple (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough, eds. (1934) Oxford University Press. |
"Church-bels beyond the starres heard, the souls bloud,
The land of spices; something understood."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Temple (l. 13-14). . .
Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough, eds. (1934) Oxford University Press. |
"The six-daies world-transposing in an houre,
A kinde of tune, which all things heare and fear;"
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Temple (l. 7-8). . .
Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough, eds. (1934) Oxford University Press. |
"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."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Temple (l. 1-4). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"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 grace."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Windows (l. 1-5). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"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."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Virtue (l. 12-16). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"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."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet, clergyman. repr. In The Works of George Herbert, ed. Helen Gardner (1961). Virtue, st. 3, The Temple (1633). |
"Christ is my onely head,
My alone onely heart and breast,
My onely musick, striking me ev'n dead;"
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Aaron (l. 16-18). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"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."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Aaron (l. 1-5). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"Thus thinne and lean without a fence or friend,
I was blown through with ev'ry storm and winde."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Affliction (l. 35-36). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
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