Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WEDNESDAY IN Y' HOLY WEEK, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT First Line: Who doubts how avarice can be Last Line: Shall still from him a full redemption reap. Subject(s): Holy Week; Jesus Christ - Legends; Materialism | ||||||||
WHO doubts how Avarice can be Plaine & right-downe Idolatrie, Neither thy Story, Judas, knows nor Thee. He knows not how a little poore Silver mov'd thy Devotion more Then He, whom Men & Angells all adore. JESUS the Crowne of Heavn & Earth, From whom all Glory takes its birth, To thy Idolatrous Heart seems little worth: Worth lesse then is ye meanest Wight; For Moses sure hath settled right The price of Man in his Creators sight. God never priz'd a Man so low As thirty silver Peeces, though He were as wretched & as vile as Thou. And yet canst Thou thy God & Lord At a farr lower price afford Then He has valued Thee at in his Word. And Chapmen Thou canst easily find Resolv'd to traffique to thy minde With ready money, & are all combinde, Combinde to gaine this Prize; since they Gods House to Trading did betray, Him too among ye Wares account they may. Unhappy Wretch, Thou dost to day Not thy own God alone betray, But thy despairing Selfe Thou sell'st away. For JESUS still though sold so cheap, Is worth a World: all his poor Sheep Shall still from Him a full Redemption reap. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BELIEVE, BELIEVE by BOB KAUFMAN SERVICE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE GOLDEN AGE by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN TIS LITTLE I COULD CARE FOR PEARLS by EMILY DICKINSON MATERIALIST by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Γενεθλιακον by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Γενεθλιακον by JOSEPH BEAUMONT A CONCLUSORIE HUMNE TO THE SAME WEEK; & FOR MY FRIEND by JOSEPH BEAUMONT |
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