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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... thou lose thy hold , Then thou art modest , and the wine grows bold . 8 If reason move not gallants , quit the room , ( All in a shipwrack shift their several way ) 45 Let not a common ruin thee entomb : Be not a beast in courtesy ; but ...
... thou lose thy hold , Then thou art modest , and the wine grows bold . 8 If reason move not gallants , quit the room , ( All in a shipwrack shift their several way ) 45 Let not a common ruin thee entomb : Be not a beast in courtesy ; but ...
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... thou dost tell another's jest , therein Omit the oaths , which true wit cannot need : Pick out of tales the mirth ... Art thou a magistrate ? then be severe : 90 If studious ; copy fair , what time hath blurred ; Redeem truth from his ...
... thou dost tell another's jest , therein Omit the oaths , which true wit cannot need : Pick out of tales the mirth ... Art thou a magistrate ? then be severe : 90 If studious ; copy fair , what time hath blurred ; Redeem truth from his ...
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... art , make it thy great design ; And if God's image move thee not , let thine . 18 Some great estates provide , but ... thou addest may be called his treasure . 20 When thou dost purpose ought ( within thy power ) , Be sure to do it ...
... art , make it thy great design ; And if God's image move thee not , let thine . 18 Some great estates provide , but ... thou addest may be called his treasure . 20 When thou dost purpose ought ( within thy power ) , Be sure to do it ...
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... thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the ... art, yet to be purchased. None is so wasteful as the scraping dame. She ... thou mayst hold out to go. 32 In clothes, cheap handsomeness doth bear the bell ...
... thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the ... art, yet to be purchased. None is so wasteful as the scraping dame. She ... thou mayst hold out to go. 32 In clothes, cheap handsomeness doth bear the bell ...
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... thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse , and so the distance greater . Be not thine own worm : yet such jealousy , As ... art his sacrifice ; Thy drops of blood must pay down all his fear : But love is lost ; the way of friendship's gone , ...
... thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse , and so the distance greater . Be not thine own worm : yet such jealousy , As ... art his sacrifice ; Thy drops of blood must pay down all his fear : But love is lost ; the way of friendship's gone , ...
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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