The Works of George Herbert: PoetryW. Pickering, 1846 |
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... fear no death , if you but bid him live . Pardon this bold ambition , ' tis his drift , To make the Altar fanctifie the Gift . Vifit this Temple , at your vacant houres , Twas Herberts Poem once , but now tis Yours . Loves Labyrinth ...
... fear no death , if you but bid him live . Pardon this bold ambition , ' tis his drift , To make the Altar fanctifie the Gift . Vifit this Temple , at your vacant houres , Twas Herberts Poem once , but now tis Yours . Loves Labyrinth ...
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... fear the rod ; The ftormy working foul fpits lies and froth . Dare to be true . Nothing can need a lie : A fault , which needs it most , grows two thereby . Fly idleness , which yet thou canst not fly By dreffing , miftreffing , and ...
... fear the rod ; The ftormy working foul fpits lies and froth . Dare to be true . Nothing can need a lie : A fault , which needs it most , grows two thereby . Fly idleness , which yet thou canst not fly By dreffing , miftreffing , and ...
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... fears to do ill , fets himself to task : Who fears to do well , fure should wear a mask . Look to thy mouth : diseases enter there . Thou hast two sconces , if thy ftomach call ; Carve , or difcourfe ; do not a famine fear . Who carves ...
... fears to do ill , fets himself to task : Who fears to do well , fure should wear a mask . Look to thy mouth : diseases enter there . Thou hast two sconces , if thy ftomach call ; Carve , or difcourfe ; do not a famine fear . Who carves ...
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... fear ; But love is loft ; the way of friendship's gone ; Though David had his Jonathan , Chrift his John . Yet be not furety , if thou be a father . Love is a perfonal debt . I cannot give My children's right , nor ought he take it ...
... fear ; But love is loft ; the way of friendship's gone ; Though David had his Jonathan , Chrift his John . Yet be not furety , if thou be a father . Love is a perfonal debt . I cannot give My children's right , nor ought he take it ...
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... fear . Kneeling ne'er spoil'd silk stocking : quit thy state . All equal are within the Church's gate . Refort to Sermons , but to Prayers most : Praying's the end of Preaching . O be dreft ; Stay not for the other pin : A joy for it ...
... fear . Kneeling ne'er spoil'd silk stocking : quit thy state . All equal are within the Church's gate . Refort to Sermons , but to Prayers most : Praying's the end of Preaching . O be dreft ; Stay not for the other pin : A joy for it ...
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Page 91 - ... 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 seasoned timber, never gives ; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.
Page 1 - 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.