The Poetical Works of George Herbert: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory NotesAppleton, 1854 - 328 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 149 - thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine: Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold : For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for less be told. A WREATH. A
الصفحة 71 - 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, And all must die. I Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
الصفحة xxiv - More servants wait on Man, Than hell 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." How strikingly do these words bring before us the
الصفحة 129 - While thou didst wink and wouldst not see. Away ; take heed : I will abroad. Call in thy death's-head there : tie up thy fears. He that forbears To suit and serve his need, Deserves his load. But as I raved and grew more fierce and wild ,-i At every word,
الصفحة 149 - 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 marr'd them : let my shame Go where it doth deserve. And know you not, says Love,
الصفحة 23 - SIN. LORD, with what care hast thou begirt us round! Parents first season us : then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws ; they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all
الصفحة 28 - CHO. LET all the world in every corner sing, My God and King. VER. The heavens are not too high, His praise may thither fly : The earth is not too low, His praises there may grow. CHO. Let all the world in every corner sing, My God and King.
الصفحة 83 - Arise, sad heart ; if thou dost not withstand, Christ's resurrection thine may be : Do not by hanging down break from the hand, Which, as it riseth, raiseth thee : Arise, arise ; And with his burial-linen dry thine eyes. Christ left his grave-clothes, that we might, when grief Draws tears, or blood, not want a handkerchief. JESU.
الصفحة 129 - Contract into a span. So strength first made a way ; Then beauty flow'd, then wisdom, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay^ ^Perceiving that alone, of all his treasure,
الصفحة 129 - I live to show his power, who once did bring My joys to weep, and now my griefs to sing. THE PULLEY. WHEN God at first. made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by