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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... passing scene and the other on what their literary predecessors have written about the same aspects of life . In the case of Herbert , apart from the Bible and Sir Philip Sidney in his work on the Psalms and the role.
... passing scene and the other on what their literary predecessors have written about the same aspects of life . In the case of Herbert , apart from the Bible and Sir Philip Sidney in his work on the Psalms and the role.
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... passing brave ' ( lines 2,4 ) , where the contrast between a proper religious humility and a secular pride is underscored by the clear allusion to Marlowe's Tamburlaine , the conqueror of Persia , ' Is it not passing brave to be a king ...
... passing brave ' ( lines 2,4 ) , where the contrast between a proper religious humility and a secular pride is underscored by the clear allusion to Marlowe's Tamburlaine , the conqueror of Persia , ' Is it not passing brave to be a king ...
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... 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 cost: Dost lose? rise up: dost win? rise in that state. Who strive to sit out losing ...
... 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 cost: Dost lose? rise up: dost win? rise in that state. Who strive to sit out losing ...
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... pass by , whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp , but to me blind ; To me , who took eyes that I might you find : Was ever grief like mine ? The Princes of my people make a head Against their Maker : they do wish me dead , Who ...
... pass by , whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp , but to me blind ; To me , who took eyes that I might you find : Was ever grief like mine ? The Princes of my people make a head Against their Maker : they do wish me dead , Who ...
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... pass , if it be thy pleasure : Was ever grief like mine ? These drops being tempered with a sinner's tears , A Balsam are for both the Hemispheres : Curing all wounds , but mine ; all , but my fears : Was ever grief like mine ? Yet my ...
... pass , if it be thy pleasure : Was ever grief like mine ? These drops being tempered with a sinner's tears , A Balsam are for both the Hemispheres : Curing all wounds , but mine ; all , but my fears : Was ever grief like mine ? Yet my ...
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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