The Poetical Works of George Herbert: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes |
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... Shine like the sun in every corner : see Whether thy stock of credit swell , or fall . Who say , I care not , those I give for lost ; And to instruct them , ' twill not quit the cost . Scorn no man's love , though of a mean degree ...
... Shine like the sun in every corner : see Whether thy stock of credit swell , or fall . Who say , I care not , those I give for lost ; And to instruct them , ' twill not quit the cost . Scorn no man's love , though of a mean degree ...
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... shine . Jest not at preachers ' language , or expression : How know'st thou , but thy sins made him miscarry ? Then turn thy faults and his into confession : God sent him , whatsoe'er he be : O tarry , And love him for his Master : his ...
... shine . Jest not at preachers ' language , or expression : How know'st thou , but thy sins made him miscarry ? Then turn thy faults and his into confession : God sent him , whatsoe'er he be : O tarry , And love him for his Master : his ...
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... shine : Was ever grief like mine ? Servants and abjects flout me ; they are witty : Now prophesy who strikes thee , is their ditty . So they in me deny themselves all pity : Was ever grief like mine ? And now I am deliver'd unto death ...
... shine : Was ever grief like mine ? Servants and abjects flout me ; they are witty : Now prophesy who strikes thee , is their ditty . So they in me deny themselves all pity : Was ever grief like mine ? And now I am deliver'd unto death ...
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... shine endeavour ? We count three hundred , but we miss : There is but one , and that one ever . EASTER WINGS . LORD , WHO CREATEDST MAN IN WEALTH AND STORE , THOUGH FOOLISHLY HE LOST THE SAME , DECAYING MORE AND MORE , TILL HE BECAME ...
... shine endeavour ? We count three hundred , but we miss : There is but one , and that one ever . EASTER WINGS . LORD , WHO CREATEDST MAN IN WEALTH AND STORE , THOUGH FOOLISHLY HE LOST THE SAME , DECAYING MORE AND MORE , TILL HE BECAME ...
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... shine , But all the constellations of the story . This verse marks that , and both do make a motion Unto a third , that ten leaves off doth lie : Then as dispersed herbs do watch a potion , These three make up some Christian's destiny ...
... shine , But all the constellations of the story . This verse marks that , and both do make a motion Unto a third , that ten leaves off doth lie : Then as dispersed herbs do watch a potion , These three make up some Christian's destiny ...
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Page xiii - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. 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. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd...
Page xxxi - 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 195 - 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
Page 160 - 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 Of what is fit and not; forsake thy cage, Thy rope of sands, Which...
Page xxiv - 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. O mighty love ! Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him.
Page 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...
Page vi - Ireland, who was then chief master of that school ; where the beauties of his pretty behaviour and wit shined and became so eminent and lovely in this his innocent age, that he seemed to be marked out for piety, and to become the care of Heaven, and of a particular good angel to guard and guide him.
Page 88 - My stuff is flesh, not brass; my senses live, And grumble oft that they have more in me Than he that curbs them, being but one to five— Yet I love thee.
Page 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.
Page 37 - With Thee O let me rise As larks, harmoniously, And sing this day Thy victories : Then shall the fall further the flight in me.