...brass and stones are heavy things, Tombs for the dead, not Temples fit for Thee; But sighs and prayers are quick, and full of wings, And all their motions...upward be. And ever as they mount, like larks they sing, The note is sad, yet music for a King. George Herbert. A GOOD woman died. And they found in her...

...Solomon "made a molten Sea" of brass (1 Kings 7:23), and his temple "was built of stone" (1 Kings 6:7). But groans are quick, and full of wings, And all their...upward be; And ever as they mount, like larks they sing; The note is sad, yet music for a king. HOME Come Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick, While...

...reminiscent of the opening of "Affliction" (III), and especially "Easter-wings," we read in "Sion": grones are quick, and full of wings, And all their motions...upward be ; And ever as they mount, like larks they sing; The note is sad, yet musick for a King. The joyful paradox is that the deeper Herbert sinks in...

...stone Is not so dear to thee as one good groan. And truly brass and stones are heavy things, Tombs for the dead, not temples fit for thee: But groans are quick, and full of wings, Home Come Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick, While thou dost ever, ever stay: Thy long deferrings...

...stone Is not so dear to thee as one good groan. And truly brass and stones are heavy things, Tombs for the dead, not temples fit for thee: But groans...upward be; And ever as they mount, like larks they sing; The note is sad, yet music for a king. i KINGS 10:1-8 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the...

...garden, and did spy A gallant flower, The crown-imperial : sure, said I, Peace at the root must dwell." " But groans are quick and full of wings, And all their...upward be, And ever as they mount, like larks they sing : The note is sad, yet music for a king." " Joys oft are there, and griefs as oft as joys, But...

...truly brasse and stones are heavie things, Tombes for the dead, not temples fit for thee: But grones are quick, and full of wings, And all their motions...upward be; And ever as they mount, like larks they sing; The note is sad, yet musick for a King. There is much comfort for an afflicted conscience in...

...truly brasse and stones are heavie things, Tombes for the dead, not temples fit for thee: But grones are quick, and full of wings, And all their motions...upward be; And ever as they mount, like larks they sing; The note is sad, yet musick for a King. Where "The British Church" celebrated a moderate ceremonial...

...stone Is not so dear to thee as one good groan. And truly brass and stones are heavy things, Tombs for the dead, not temples fit for thee: But groans...upward be; And ever as they mount, like larks they sing; The note is sad, yet music for a king. FIRST KINGS 70:7-70:9 And when the queen of Sheba heard...

...truly brasse and stones are heavie things, Tombes for the dead, not temples fit for thee: But grones are quick, and full of wings, And all their motions...upward be; And ever as they mount, like larks they sing; The note is sad, yet musick for a King. ' 336 Elsewhere Herbert goes further still. In 'The storm',...