The English Works of George Herbert: Newly Arranged and Annotated and Considered in Relation to His Life, المجلد 3

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Houghton Mifflin, 1905
 

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الصفحة 213 - Not so, my heart; but there is fruit, And thou hast hands. Recover all thy sigh-blown age On double pleasures; leave thy cold dispute Of what is fit and not...
الصفحة 305 - THE FLOWER. How fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean Are thy returns ! ev'n as the flowers in spring ; To which, besides their own demean, The late-past frosts tributes of pleasure bring.
الصفحة 11 - COME, my Way, my Truth, my Life : Such a Way, as gives us breath : Such a Truth, as ends all strife : Such a Life, as killeth death. Come, my Light, my Feast, my Strength Such a Light, as shows a feast : Such a Feast, as mends in length : Such a Strength, as makes his guest.
الصفحة 321 - LIFE. I MADE a posie, while the day ran by : Here will I smell my remnant out, and tie My life within this band.
الصفحة 297 - DISCIPLINE. THROW away thy rod. Throw away thy wrath 0 my God, Take the gentle path. For my heart's desire Unto thine is bent : I aspire To a full consent. Not a word or look I affect to own, But by book, And thy book alone.
الصفحة 11 - Profaneness in my head, Defects and darkness in my breast, A noise of passions ringing me for dead Unto a place where is no rest : Poor Priest thus am I drest.
الصفحة 203 - HOPE. I GAVE to Hope a Watch of mine : but he An Anchor gave to me.
الصفحة 79 - Beasts fain would sing; birds ditty to their notes; Trees would be tuning on their native lute To thy renown: but all their hands and throats Are brought to man, while they are lame and mute.
الصفحة 307 - 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.
الصفحة 149 - 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.

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