The Complete English PoemsPenguin Adult, 7. okt 2004 - 460 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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Page 284
... Woodnoth . He was a man that had considered overgrown estates do often require more care and watchfulness to preserve than get them , and considered that there be many discontents that riches cure not ; and did therefore set limits to ...
... Woodnoth . He was a man that had considered overgrown estates do often require more care and watchfulness to preserve than get them , and considered that there be many discontents that riches cure not ; and did therefore set limits to ...
Page 313
... Woodnoth , ' My dear Friend , I am sorry I have nothing to present to my merciful God but sin and misery ; but the first is pardoned ; and a few hours will now put a period to the latter ; for I shall suddenly go hence and be no more ...
... Woodnoth , ' My dear Friend , I am sorry I have nothing to present to my merciful God but sin and misery ; but the first is pardoned ; and a few hours will now put a period to the latter ; for I shall suddenly go hence and be no more ...
Page 314
... Woodnoth and said , ' My old Friend , I here deliver you my last will , in which you will find that I have made you ... Woodnoth's promise to be so , he said , ' I am now ready to die ' ; after which word he said , ' Lord , forsake me ...
... Woodnoth and said , ' My old Friend , I here deliver you my last will , in which you will find that I have made you ... Woodnoth's promise to be so , he said , ' I am now ready to die ' ; after which word he said , ' Lord , forsake me ...
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