The Poetical Works of George Herbert: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory NotesJ. Nichol, 1853 - 328 páginas |
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... fear of the terrors and that hope of the joys of a future state of being , by which all hearts at times are moved . Yet , Herbert , although his mind wrought in a superinduced atmosphere of mysticism , and although he is commonly ...
... fear of the terrors and that hope of the joys of a future state of being , by which all hearts at times are moved . Yet , Herbert , although his mind wrought in a superinduced atmosphere of mysticism , and although he is commonly ...
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... fear the rod ; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth . Dare to be true . Nothing can need a lie : A fault , which needs it most , grows two thereby . Fly idleness , which yet thou canst not fly By dressing , mistressing , and ...
... fear the rod ; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth . Dare to be true . Nothing can need a lie : A fault , which needs it most , grows two thereby . Fly idleness , which yet thou canst not fly By dressing , mistressing , and ...
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... fears to do ill , sets himself to task : Who fears to do well , sure should wear a mask . Look to thy mouth diseases enter there . Thou hast two sconces , if thy stomach call ; Carve , or discourse ; do not a famine fear . Who carves ...
... fears to do ill , sets himself to task : Who fears to do well , sure should wear a mask . Look to thy mouth diseases enter there . Thou hast two sconces , if thy stomach call ; Carve , or discourse ; do not a famine fear . Who carves ...
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... fear ; But love is lost ; the way of friendship's gone ; Though David had his Jonathan , Christ his John . Yet be not surety , if thou be a father . Love is a personal debt . I cannot give My children's right , nor ought he take it ...
... fear ; But love is lost ; the way of friendship's gone ; Though David had his Jonathan , Christ his John . Yet be not surety , if thou be a father . Love is a personal debt . I cannot give My children's right , nor ought he take it ...
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... fear . Kneeling ne'er spoil'd silk stocking : quit thy state . All equal are within the Church's gate . Resort to scrmons , but to prayers most : Praying's the end of preaching . O be drest ; Stay not for th ' other pin : why thou hast ...
... fear . Kneeling ne'er spoil'd silk stocking : quit thy state . All equal are within the Church's gate . Resort to scrmons , but to prayers most : Praying's the end of preaching . O be drest ; Stay not for th ' other pin : why thou hast ...
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Página 167 - I should (said He) Bestow this jewel also on My creature, He would adore My gifts instead of Me, And rest in nature, not the God of nature : So both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlessness : Let him be rich and weary, that at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to My breast.
Página 72 - The indorsement of supreme delight, Writ by a friend, and with his blood ; The couch of time ; care's balm and bay ; The week were dark, but for thy light. Thy torch doth show the way.
Página 159 - No more! — I will abroad. What! shall I ever sigh and pine? My lines and life are free — free as the road, Loose as the wind, as large as store. Shall I be still in suit? Have I no harvest but a thorn To let me blood, and not restore What I have lost with cordial fruit?
Página 175 - And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing: O my only light, It cannot be That I am he, On whom thy tempests fell all night.
Página 200 - I the unkind, ungrateful ? Ah my dear, I cannot look on thee. Love took my hand, and smiling did reply, Who made the eyes but I ? Truth, Lord, but I have marred them : let my shame Go where it doth deserve. And know you not, says Love, who bore the blame ? My dear, then I will serve. You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat : So I did sit and eat.
Página 87 - Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie. My music shows ye have your closes.
Página 167 - Let us (said he) pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way; Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone of all his treasure Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should...
Página 88 - I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it ; The propositions of hot blood and brains ; What mirth and music mean ; what love and wit Have done these twenty hundred years, and more I know the projects of unbridled store...
Página 91 - More servants wait on man Than he'll take notice of. In every path, He treads down that which doth befriend him When sickness makes him pale and wan. Oh mighty love! Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him.
Página 18 - Sum up at night what thou hast done by day ; And in the morning, what thou hast to do. Dress and undress thy soul ; mark the decay And growth of it. If, with thy watch, that too Be down, then wind up both. Since we shall be Most surely judged, make thy accounts agree.