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THE GOODNESSE OF HIS GOD by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN WINDS AND SEAS DO RAGE
Last Line: TO BARK, OR BITE, WITHOUT THEE?
Subject(s): GOD;

When Winds and Seas do rage,
And threaten to undo me,
Thou dost their wrath asswage
If I but call unto Thee.

A mighty storm last night
Did seek my soule to swallow,
But by the peep of light
A gentle calme did follow.

What need I then despaire,
Though ills stand round about me;
Since mischiefs neither dare
To bark, or bite, without Thee?



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