 | George Herbert - 1865 - 348 pages
...sicknesses. Thus doth thy power cross-bias me, not making Thine own gift good, yet me from my ways taking. Now I am here, what thou wilt do with me None of my books will show : I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree ; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade : at... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - 404 pages
...sicknesses. Thus doth thy power cross-Mas me, not making Thine own gifts good, yet me from my ways taking. Now I am here, what thou wilt do with me None of my books will show. I read, and sigh, and I wish I were a tree, For then sure I should grow To fruit or shade, at... | |
 | George Herbert - English poetry - 1871 - 362 pages
...sicknesses. Thus doth Thy power cross-bias me, not making Thine own gift good, yet me from my ways taking. Now I am here, what Thou wilt do with me None of my books will show : I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree ; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade : at... | |
 | George Herbert - English poetry - 1871 - 280 pages
...sicknesses. Thus doth Thy power cross-bias me, not making Thine own gift good, yet me from my ways taking. Now I am here, what Thou wilt do with me None of my books will show : I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree ; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade : at... | |
 | George Herbert - 1874 - 386 pages
...is made alive again with Christianity by the rural scholar of Bemerton, in this exquisite stanza : " Now I am here, what Thou wilt do with me None of my books will show: I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade; at least... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...sicknesses. Thus does Thy power cross-bias me, not making Thine own gift good, yet me from my ways taking. Now I am here; what Thou wilt do with me, None of my hooks will show: I read . and sigh, and wish I were a tree ; For sure then I should grow To fruit,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...sicknesses, Thus does Thy power cross-bias me, not making Thine own gift good, yet me from my ways taking. h joy The gleaners spread around, and here and them, Spike after show : I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree ; For sure then I should grow To fruit, or shade; at... | |
 | George Herbert - English poetry - 1877 - 120 pages
...sicknesses. Thus doth thy power cross-bias me, not making Thine own gifl good, yet me from my ways (aking. Now I am here, what thou wilt do with me None of my books will show : To fruit or shade : at least some bird would t rust Her household to me, and I should be just.... | |
 | John Armstrong (Physician & Poet.) - 1880 - 692 pages
...sicknesses. Thus doth thy power cross-bias me, not making Thine own gift good, yet me from my ways taking. Now I am here, what thou wilt do with me None of my books will show : I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree ; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade : at... | |
 | George Herbert - Literature - 1881 - 604 pages
...sicknesses. Thus doth Thy power cross-bias me, not making Thine own gift good, yet me from my ways taking. Now I am here, what thou wilt do with me None of my books will show : I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree — For sure, then, I should grow To fruit or shade... | |
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Now I am here ; what thou wilt do with me, None of my books will show. I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree ; For sure then I should grow To fruit, or shade ; at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just. 
