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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... Priesthood The Search Grief The Cross The Flower Dotage The Son A True Hymn The Answer A Dialogue-Anthem The Water-Course Self-Condemnation Bitter-Sweet The Glance The Twenty-third Psalm Mary Magdalene Aaron The Odour. 2 Corinthians.
... Priesthood The Search Grief The Cross The Flower Dotage The Son A True Hymn The Answer A Dialogue-Anthem The Water-Course Self-Condemnation Bitter-Sweet The Glance The Twenty-third Psalm Mary Magdalene Aaron The Odour. 2 Corinthians.
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... answer, It is a good work, if it be sprinkled with the blood of Christ: otherwise than in this respect he could find nothing to glory or comfort himself with, neither in this nor in any other thing. And these are but a few of many that ...
... answer, It is a good work, if it be sprinkled with the blood of Christ: otherwise than in this respect he could find nothing to glory or comfort himself with, neither in this nor in any other thing. And these are but a few of many that ...
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... answer their own notion. Take all into thee; then with equal care Balance each dram of reason, like a potion. If truth be with thy friend, be with them both: Share in the conquest, and confess a troth. 55 Be useful where thou livest ...
... answer their own notion. Take all into thee; then with equal care Balance each dram of reason, like a potion. If truth be with thy friend, be with them both: Share in the conquest, and confess a troth. 55 Be useful where thou livest ...
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EasterWings | |
Sin | |
Modest and moderate joys are passing brave lines 24 where the contrast | |
Faith | |
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