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Affliction Albert Dürer Angels art thou beleeve blessed bloud brave breast breath Choice of Emblemes CHRIST Church crie deare death delight dimme doore doth dust earth engraving eternall ev'n ev'ry eyes fear flesh flie flower foes George Whitney giv'n give glorie glorious grief grone grow hath heart heav'n holy honour joyes King let thy light Little Gidding live look Lord Lucas van Leyden lust Martin Schongauer Maximilian's Prayer Book mend mirth musick Nicholas Ferrar night Passion peace pleasure poore praise thee runne Schopper's Panoplia shew shine show thyself sigh sing sinne skie sonne sorrow soul starres stone sunne sure sweet sweet sacrifice sweetnesse tears thine things thou art thou didst thou dost thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thoughts thy grace thy hand thy love thy praise truth no beautie unto verse vertue wayes weep Wherefore winde wings woodcut words
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Page 201 - 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...
Page 237 - 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 marr'd them ; let my shame Go where it doth deserve.
Page 20 - Judge not the preacher, for he is thy judge : If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speak something good. If all want sense, God takes a text and preacheth patience.
Page 194 - All wasted ? 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...
Page 3 - THOU, whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure, Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure : A verse may find him, who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice.
Page 9 - By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself : see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest ; for 'tis thine own : And tumble up and down what thou find'st there.
Page 99 - And did enclose this light for His ; That, as each beast his manger knows, Man might not of his fodder miss : Christ hath took in this piece of ground, And made a garden there, for those Who want herbs for their wound. The rest of our Creation Our great Redeemer did remove With the same shake, which at His passion Did th...
Page 94 - WHO is the honest man ? He that doth still and strongly good pursue, To God, his neighbour, and himself most true ; Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin or wrench from giving all their due. Whose honesty is not So loose or easy, that a ruffling wind Can blow away, or glittering look it blind ; Who rides his sure and even trot, While the world now rides by, now lags behind.
Page 162 - Take of this grain, which in my garden grows, And grows for you; Make bread of it: — and that repose And peace, which everywhere With so much earnestness you do pursue, Is only there.
Page 157 - HOPE. I GAVE to Hope a Watch of mine : but he An Anchor gave to me.