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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... gives life , a defeat that is highest victory , a humility that is triumphant , flesh that is bread and blood that is wine ... give one only name / To parents ' issue and the sun's bright star ' The number of creative puns in Herbert is ...
... gives life , a defeat that is highest victory , a humility that is triumphant , flesh that is bread and blood that is wine ... give one only name / To parents ' issue and the sun's bright star ' The number of creative puns in Herbert is ...
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... own bond , forfeiteth himself : What nature made a ship , he makes a shelf . 21 Do all things like a man , not sneakingly : Think the king sees thee still ; for his King does . 125 130 135 140 Simp'ring is but a lay-hypocrisy: Give.
... own bond , forfeiteth himself : What nature made a ship , he makes a shelf . 21 Do all things like a man , not sneakingly : Think the king sees thee still ; for his King does . 125 130 135 140 Simp'ring is but a lay-hypocrisy: Give.
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... Give it a corner, and the clue undoes. Who 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 ...
... Give it a corner, and the clue undoes. Who 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 ...
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... give My children's right , nor ought he take it : rather Both friends should die , than hinder them to live . Fathers first enter bonds to nature's ends ; And are her sureties , ere they are a friend's . 48 285 If thou be single , all ...
... give My children's right , nor ought he take it : rather Both friends should die , than hinder them to live . Fathers first enter bonds to nature's ends ; And are her sureties , ere they are a friend's . 48 285 If thou be single , all ...
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... give men turns of speech: do not forestall By lavishness thine own, and others' wit, As if thou mad'st thy will. A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast. 52 Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and ...
... give men turns of speech: do not forestall By lavishness thine own, and others' wit, As if thou mad'st thy will. A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast. 52 Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and ...
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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