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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... Holy Baptism ( 1 ) Holy Baptism ( 2 ) Nature Sin ( 1 ) Affliction ( 1 ) Repentance Faith Prayer ( 1 ) The Holy Communion CONTENTS.
... Holy Baptism ( 1 ) Holy Baptism ( 2 ) Nature Sin ( 1 ) Affliction ( 1 ) Repentance Faith Prayer ( 1 ) The Holy Communion CONTENTS.
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... Holy Scriptures ( 1 ) The Holy Scriptures ( 2 ) Whitsunday Grace Praise ( 1 ) Affliction ( 2 ) Matins Sin ( 2 ) Evensong Church - Monuments Church - Music Church - Lock and Key The Church - Floor The Windows Trinity Sunday Content The ...
... Holy Scriptures ( 1 ) The Holy Scriptures ( 2 ) Whitsunday Grace Praise ( 1 ) Affliction ( 2 ) Matins Sin ( 2 ) Evensong Church - Monuments Church - Music Church - Lock and Key The Church - Floor The Windows Trinity Sunday Content The ...
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... Holy Spirit, etc. The Family The Size Artillery Church-Rents and Schisms Justice (2) The Pilgrimage The Holdfast Complaining The Discharge Praise (2) An Offering Longing The Bag The Jews The Collar The Glimpse Assurance The Call ...
... Holy Spirit, etc. The Family The Size Artillery Church-Rents and Schisms Justice (2) The Pilgrimage The Holdfast Complaining The Discharge Praise (2) An Offering Longing The Bag The Jews The Collar The Glimpse Assurance The Call ...
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... Holy Communion Love Trinity Sunday Evensong The Knell Perseverance Poems from Izaak Walton's The Life of Mr George Herbert Sonnets To My Successor Additional English Poems To the Right Hon. the L. Chancellor To the Lady Elizabeth Queen ...
... Holy Communion Love Trinity Sunday Evensong The Knell Perseverance Poems from Izaak Walton's The Life of Mr George Herbert Sonnets To My Successor Additional English Poems To the Right Hon. the L. Chancellor To the Lady Elizabeth Queen ...
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... holy name letter by letter in the speaker's heart , and the only slightly less subtle play on the letters ' J and C ' annealed on grapes in ' Love - Joy ' ( where one sees and hears also a pun on ' annealed ' ' aneled ' as ' burnt in ...
... holy name letter by letter in the speaker's heart , and the only slightly less subtle play on the letters ' J and C ' annealed on grapes in ' Love - Joy ' ( where one sees and hears also a pun on ' annealed ' ' aneled ' as ' burnt in ...
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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