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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SONNET SENT HOME FROM COLLEGE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: My god, where is that ancient heat towards thee
Last Line: Then that which, one day, worms may chance refuse?
Variant Title(s): To His Mother; As A New Year's Gift From Cambridge;the Resolve
First Line: My god, where is that ancient heat towards thee
Last Line: Then that which, one day, worms may chance refuse?
Variant Title(s): To His Mother; As A New Year's Gift From Cambridge;the Resolve
(SENT BY GEORGE HERBERT TO HIS MOTHER AS A NEW YEAR'S GIFT
FROM CAMBRIDGE)
MY God, where is that ancient heat towards thee
Wherewith whole shoals of martyrs once did burn,
Besides their other flames? Doth poetrie
Wear Venus' liverie? onely serve her turn?
Why are not sonnets made of thee? and layes
Upon thine altar burnt? Cannot thy love
Heighten a spirit to sound out thy praise
As well as any she? Cannot thy Dove
Outstrip their Cupid easilie in flight?
Or, since thy wayes are deep, and still the same,
Will not a verse runne smooth that bears thy name?
Why doth that fire, which by thy power and might
Each breast does feel, no braver fuel choose
Then that which, one day, worms may chance refuse?
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