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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... hath bounds and stays . Continence hath his joy : weigh both ; and so If rottenness have more , let Heaven go . 4 If God had laid all common , certainly 20 Man would have been th ' incloser : but since now God hath impaled us , on the ...
... hath bounds and stays . Continence hath his joy : weigh both ; and so If rottenness have more , let Heaven go . 4 If God had laid all common , certainly 20 Man would have been th ' incloser : but since now God hath impaled us , on the ...
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... hath lost the reins , Is outlawed by himself : all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins . The drunkard forfeits Man , and doth devest All worldly right , save what he hath by beast . 7 Shall I , to please another's wine ...
... hath lost the reins , Is outlawed by himself : all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins . The drunkard forfeits Man , and doth devest All worldly right , save what he hath by beast . 7 Shall I , to please another's wine ...
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... hath, the devil hath him. Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick. 29 What skills it, if a bag of stones or gold 170 About thy neck do drown thee? raise thy head; Take stars for money ...
... hath, the devil hath him. Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick. 29 What skills it, if a bag of stones or gold 170 About thy neck do drown thee? raise thy head; Take stars for money ...
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... hath bore; Servants and churches also play their part. Only a herald, who that way doth pass, Finds his cracked name at length in the church glass. 34 If yet thou love game at so dear a rate, Learn this, that hath old gamesters dearly ...
... hath bore; Servants and churches also play their part. Only a herald, who that way doth pass, Finds his cracked name at length in the church glass. 34 If yet thou love game at so dear a rate, Learn this, that hath old gamesters dearly ...
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... hath more promises , more love : And love's a weight to hearts , to eyes a sign . We all are but cold suitors ; let us move Where it is warmest . Leave thy six and seven ; Pray with the most : for where most pray , is heaven . 68 When ...
... hath more promises , more love : And love's a weight to hearts , to eyes a sign . We all are but cold suitors ; let us move Where it is warmest . Leave thy six and seven ; Pray with the most : for where most pray , is heaven . 68 When ...
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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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