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"Now I am here, what thou wilt do with me
None of my books will show:
I reade, and sigh, and wish I were a tree;"
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Affliction (l. 55-57). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"At first thou gav'st me milk and sweetnesses;
I had my wish and way:
My dayes were straw'd with flow'rs and happinesse;
There was no month but May.
But with my yeares sorrow did twist and grow,
And made a partie unawares for wo."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Affliction (l. 19-24). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"Ah my deare God! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Affliction (l. 65-66). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"I, who had heard of music in the spheres,
But not of speech in stars, began to muse:
But turning to my God, whose ministers
The stars and all things are; If I refuse,
Dread Lord, said I, so oft my good;
Then I refuse not ev'n with blood
To wash away my stubborn thought:
For I will do or suffer what I ought."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Artillerie (l. 9-16). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"Give me simplicity, that I may live,
So live and like, that I may know Thy ways,
Know them and practise them: then shall I give
For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. A Wreath (l. 9-12). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"life is straight,
Straight as a line, and ever tends to Thee,"
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. A Wreath (l. 5-6). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"A wreathed garland of deserved praise,
Of praise deserved, unto Thee I give,
I give to Thee, who knowest all my ways,
My crooked winding ways, wherein I live,"
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. A Wreath (l. 1-4). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"Ah my dear angry Lord,
Since thou dost love, yet strike;
Cast down, yet help afford;
Sure I will do the like."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Bitter-sweet (l. 1-4). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"thou mayst know,
That flesh is but the glass, which holds the dust
That measures all our time;"
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Church Monuments (l. 19-21). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"But since our Saviours death did put some bloud
Into thy face;
Thou art grown fair and full of grace,
Much in request, much sought for as a good."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Death (l. 13-16). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
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