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The Metaphysical Poets

Helen Gardner - Poetry - 1967 - 340 pages
...coarse-spunne lines ? Must purling streams refresh a lovers loves ? Must all be vail'd, while he that reades, divines, Catching the sense at two removes ? Shepherds...sing: Riddle who list, for me, and pull for Prime: I envie no mans nightingale or spring ; Nor let them punish me with losse of rime, Who plainly say, My...
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The Complete English Poems

George Herbert - Poetry - 1991 - 500 pages
...in a winding stair? May no lines pass, except they do their duty Not to a true, but painted chair? Shepherds are honest people; let them sing: Riddle...spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King. 15 Employment (1) If as a flower doth spread and die, Thou wouldst extend...
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Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship

Michael C. Schoenfeldt - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 364 pages
...illegitimacy. Yet the last stanza further complicates the poem's covert critique of political authority: Shepherds are honest people; let them sing: Riddle who list, for me, and pull for Prime: I envie no mans nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with losse of rime, Who plainly say, My...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...beauty? 45 Must all be veiled, while he that reads, divines, Catching the sense at two removes? 46 3) 5 Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive, — Snuffy plainly say, My God, My King. HAP; InPS; JCP; LiTB; MeLP; MePo; NAEL-1; NOCV; NoP; OAEL-1; OBS; PoE;...
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Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception

Charles Martindale - History - 1993 - 156 pages
...arbours shadow coarse-spun lines? Must purling streams refresh a lover's loves? Must all be veiled, while he that reads divines, Catching the sense at...spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme Who plainly say, 'My God, my King'. Herbert's argument is self-contradicting, first because to say 'My...
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George Herbert: The Critical Heritage

C. A. Patrides - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...sweet phrases, curled metaphors, trim inventions, honey of roses, winding stairs of subtle meaning: Shepherds are honest people; let them sing: Riddle who list for me, and pull for prime: 1 envy no man's nightingale or spring. ['Jordan1 (I), 11. 11-13] And in truth Herbert's range as a...
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A Selection of Metaphysical Poets

Virginia Graham - Poetry - 1996 - 260 pages
...Must purling streams refresh a lover's loves? Must all be veiled, while he that reads, divines, 10 Catching the sense at two removes? Shepherds are honest...spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, is Who plainly say, My God, My King. Jordan (II) 3 quaint words - elaborate, artificial words. trim...
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The Spirituality of the Diocesan Priest

Donald B. Cozzens - Priests - 1997 - 212 pages
...arbors shadow coarse-spun lines? Must purling streams refresh a lover's loves? Must all be veil'd, while he that reads, divines, Catching the sense at...spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say. My God, My The spirituality of the diocesan priest is grounded in three truths that have...
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Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry

Kenneth Koch - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 324 pages
...conforming to an idea, as, for example, George Herbert manages to do in any number of poems about God: I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, my God, my King. (GEORGE HERBERT, "Jordan (I)") There are such other working standards...
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Heart-Work: George Herbert and the Protestant Ethic

Cristina Malcolmson - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 324 pages
...and ends with a concluding answer. The last stanza stages an imaginary truce between the debaters: Shepherds are honest people; let them sing: Riddle who list, for me, and pull for Prime: I envie no mans nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with losse of rime, Who plainly say, My...
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