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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... dost tell another's jest , therein Omit the oaths , which true wit cannot need : Pick out of tales the mirth , but not the sin . He pares his apple , that will cleanly feed . Play not away the virtue of that name , Which is thy best ...
... dost tell another's jest , therein Omit the oaths , which true wit cannot need : Pick out of tales the mirth , but not the sin . He pares his apple , that will cleanly feed . Play not away the virtue of that name , Which is thy best ...
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... dost purpose ought ( within thy power ) , Be sure to do it , though it be but small : Constancy knits the bones , and makes us stour , When wanton pleasures beckon us to thrall . Who breaks his own bond , forfeiteth himself : What ...
... dost purpose ought ( within thy power ) , Be sure to do it , though it be but small : Constancy knits the bones , and makes us stour , When wanton pleasures beckon us to thrall . Who breaks his own bond , forfeiteth himself : What ...
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... Dost lose? rise up: dost win? rise in that state. Who strive to sit out losing hands, are lost. Game is a civil gunpowder, in peace Blowing up houses with their whole increase. 35 205 210 215 220 In conversation boldness now bears sway ...
... Dost lose? rise up: dost win? rise in that state. Who strive to sit out losing hands, are lost. Game is a civil gunpowder, in peace Blowing up houses with their whole increase. 35 205 210 215 220 In conversation boldness now bears sway ...
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... dost venerate ; And not the beast , that bears it on his back . I care not though the cloth of state should be Not of rich arras , but mean tapestry . 46 Thy friend put in thy bosom : wear his eyes Still in thy heart , that he may see ...
... dost venerate ; And not the beast , that bears it on his back . I care not though the cloth of state should be Not of rich arras , but mean tapestry . 46 Thy friend put in thy bosom : wear his eyes Still in thy heart , that he may see ...
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... dost thyself and him a pleasure: (But a proud ignorance will lose his rest, Rather than show his cards) steal from his treasure What to ask further. Doubts well raised do lock The speaker to thee, and preserve thy stock. 51 If thou be ...
... dost thyself and him a pleasure: (But a proud ignorance will lose his rest, Rather than show his cards) steal from his treasure What to ask further. Doubts well raised do lock The speaker to thee, and preserve thy stock. 51 If thou be ...
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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