The Complete English PoemsPenguin UK, 7. okt 2004 - 512 pages George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verse uses the ingenious arguments typical of seventeenth-century 'metaphysical' poets, and unusual imagery drawn from musical structures, the natural world and domestic activity to explore a mosaic of Biblical themes. From the wit and wordplay of 'The Pulley' and the formal experimentation of 'Easter Wings' and 'Paradise', to the intense, highly personal relationship between man and God portrayed in 'The Collar' and 'Redemption', the works collected here show the transcendental power of divine love. |
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... God where , however humble the guilty speaker in the poem may be , he is confident of being a worthy member of the dialogue . We believe that Herbert was truly honest when he viewed himself as the ' Less than the least of God's mercies ...
... God where , however humble the guilty speaker in the poem may be , he is confident of being a worthy member of the dialogue . We believe that Herbert was truly honest when he viewed himself as the ' Less than the least of God's mercies ...
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... God ' , ELR 13 ( 1983 ) Piret , Michael , ' Herbert and Proverbs ' , The Cambridge Quarterly 17 ( 1988 ) Post ... God's Courtier : Configuring a Different Grace in George Herbert's ' Temple ' , Cambridge University Press , 1987 ...
... God ' , ELR 13 ( 1983 ) Piret , Michael , ' Herbert and Proverbs ' , The Cambridge Quarterly 17 ( 1988 ) Post ... God's Courtier : Configuring a Different Grace in George Herbert's ' Temple ' , Cambridge University Press , 1987 ...
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... God , choosing rather to serve at God's Altar , than to seek the honour of State employments . As for those inward enforcements to this course ( for outward there was none ) which many of these ensuing verses bear witness of , they ...
... God , choosing rather to serve at God's Altar , than to seek the honour of State employments . As for those inward enforcements to this course ( for outward there was none ) which many of these ensuing verses bear witness of , they ...
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... God permitted not the accomplishment of this desire, having ordained him his instrument for re-edifying of the Church belonging thereunto that had lain ruinated ... God's mercies. The Dedication Lord , my first fruits present themselves to.
... God permitted not the accomplishment of this desire, having ordained him his instrument for re-edifying of the Church belonging thereunto that had lain ruinated ... God's mercies. The Dedication Lord , my first fruits present themselves to.
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... God's stamp deface . 9 Yet , if thou sin in wine or wantonness , 50 Boast not thereof ; nor make thy shame thy glory . Frailty gets pardon by submissiveness ; 55 But he that boasts , shuts that out of his story . He makes flat war with God ...
... God's stamp deface . 9 Yet , if thou sin in wine or wantonness , 50 Boast not thereof ; nor make thy shame thy glory . Frailty gets pardon by submissiveness ; 55 But he that boasts , shuts that out of his story . He makes flat war with God ...
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FURTHER READING | |
EasterWings | |
Sin | |
Modest and moderate joys are passing brave lines 24 where the contrast | |
Faith | |
The Holy Communion | |
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Affliction altar Angels Bemerton better blessing body breast catechising Cestum Chapter charity Christ Christian Church comfort Communion Corinthians country parson dear death discourse divine Donne Donne's doth earth especially eucharistic ev'n eyes Father fear Ferrar flesh George Herbert give glory God's grace grief hand hath heart heaven High Ercall holy honour Hutchinson Jesus John John Donne judgement King Lancelot Andrewes Little Gidding live Lord Luke Mary Magdalene Master Matthew mercy Nicholas Ferrar occasion parish poem poetry poor praise pray prayers priest Psalm Scripture sermon servants sins Song of Solomon Sonnet soul spirit St Paul Sunday sweet tears Temple thee thine things thou art thou didst thou dost thou hast thou shalt thought Title Trinity Sunday Twenty-third Psalm unto verse virtue Walton Westminster School Wherefore Woodnoth words