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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... fear within the framework of assured love and forgiveness . A good way to calculate , if calculation is possible in matters of tone and feeling , the difference between the attitudes of Herbert in regard to doubt and faith and the ...
... fear within the framework of assured love and forgiveness . A good way to calculate , if calculation is possible in matters of tone and feeling , the difference between the attitudes of Herbert in regard to doubt and faith and the ...
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... fear the rod ; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth . Dare to be true . Nothing can need a lie : A fault , which needs it most , grows two thereby . 14 Fly idleness , which yet thou canst not fly By dressing , mistressing , and ...
... fear the rod ; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth . Dare to be true . Nothing can need a lie : A fault , which needs it most , grows two thereby . 14 Fly idleness , which yet thou canst not fly By dressing , mistressing , and ...
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... fears to do ill, sets himself to task: Who fears to do well, sure should wear a mask. 22 Look to thy mouth; diseases enter there. Thou hast two sconces, if thy stomach call; Carve, or discourse; do not a famine fear. Who carves, is kind ...
... fears to do ill, sets himself to task: Who fears to do well, sure should wear a mask. 22 Look to thy mouth; diseases enter there. Thou hast two sconces, if thy stomach call; Carve, or discourse; do not a famine fear. Who carves, is kind ...
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... fear : But love is lost ; the way of friendship's gone , Though David had his Jonathan , Christ his John . 47 Yet be not surety , if thou be a father . Love is a personal debt . I cannot give My children's right , nor ought he take it ...
... fear : But love is lost ; the way of friendship's gone , Though David had his Jonathan , Christ his John . 47 Yet be not surety , if thou be a father . Love is a personal debt . I cannot give My children's right , nor ought he take it ...
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... fear . Kneeling ne'er spoil'd silk stocking : quit thy state . All equal are within the church's gate . 69 Resort to sermons , but to prayers most : Praying's the end of preaching . O be dressed ; Stay not for th ' other pin : why thou ...
... fear . Kneeling ne'er spoil'd silk stocking : quit thy state . All equal are within the church's gate . 69 Resort to sermons , but to prayers most : Praying's the end of preaching . O be dressed ; Stay not for th ' other pin : why thou ...
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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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