O God, thou art both God, and good to me Thee to find I therfore will Employ my skill When first my Sight the morning light shall see Within my Soul a thirst of thee dos dwell Nay my body more doth crave Thy tast to have Than in this desert dry a springing Well This desert whence when I my thoughts do reare I no lesse behold thy might And glory bright Than if I in Thy Sanctuary were For mercys thyne, so kind Thy mercys are All life joyes nay life surmount Which to recount My thankfull lips no time, no paine shall spare As long as life Thy gift, Thy loving gift Leaves me not, my joyfull prayse Thy name shall rayse Wherin to Thee I praying hands will lift My hungry Soul most dainty food doth tast When of Thee I dreame in night Or think in light Or have my tongue upon thy prayses plac't. Thy Safeguard me from perill hath preserv'd Hiv'd by Thee I dry have lain From showres of pain Thy hand to me this life hath still reserv'd. But who persue, and would me headlong throw Headlong shall themselves be thrown With tempest blown Into the place in lowest earth most low. The murthring blade shall first their life devoure Carkases of life bereft Shall there be left Where foxes teeth shall have them in their power. As for the King, The King in God shall joy So shall they who evermore His name adore Who lying mouths will stop, lyars destroy. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN THE SHADOWS: 20 by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) AN UNINSCRIBED MONUMENT - BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS by HERMAN MELVILLE THE LAY OF ST. ODILLE by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER (DEDICATED TO MISS ELLA F. KENNEDY) by SARA S. BASHEFKIN SOME SWEET DAY by LEWIS J. BATES GERALDINE by EMILY JANE BRONTE OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 18 by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. |