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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George Herbert John Tobin. Thou art my grief alone , Thou Lord conceal it not : and as thou art All my delight , so all my smart : Thy cross took up in By way of imprest , all my future moan . one , IO Matins I cannot ope mine eyes , But ...
George Herbert John Tobin. Thou art my grief alone , Thou Lord conceal it not : and as thou art All my delight , so all my smart : Thy cross took up in By way of imprest , all my future moan . one , IO Matins I cannot ope mine eyes , But ...
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... Thou art a day of mirth : And where the week - days trail on ground , Thy flight is higher , as thy birth . O let me ... thou bane of bliss , and source of woe , Whence com'st thou , that thou art so fresh and fine ? I know thy parentage ...
... Thou art a day of mirth : And where the week - days trail on ground , Thy flight is higher , as thy birth . O let me ... thou bane of bliss , and source of woe , Whence com'st thou , that thou art so fresh and fine ? I know thy parentage ...
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... thou dost abide with me , And I depend on thee ; Yet when thou dost suppress The cheerfulness Of thy abode , And in ... art not here . And then what life I have , While Sin doth rave , And falsely boast , That I may seek , but thou art ...
... thou dost abide with me , And I depend on thee ; Yet when thou dost suppress The cheerfulness Of thy abode , And in ... art not here . And then what life I have , While Sin doth rave , And falsely boast , That I may seek , but thou art ...
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