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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: traherne, thomas Matches Found: 100 Traherne, Thomas Poet's Biography 100 poems available by this author A LIFE OF SABBATHS HERE BENEATH! ADAM Poem Text First Line: God made man upright at the first Last Line: The earth being in the middle found. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible ADMIRATION Poem Text First Line: Can human shape so taking be Last Line: Is thus admired like a deity! Subject(s): Admiration; Bodies AMENDMENT: 1 Poem Text First Line: That all things should be mine Last Line: To which this work so wonderfull doth tend. AMENDMENT: 2 Poem Text First Line: That we should make the skies Last Line: Wherein thy wisdom mightily doth lurk. AMENDMENT: 3 Poem Text First Line: Thy greatness and thy love Last Line: And such an end in such a sort attain. AMENDMENT: 4 Poem Text First Line: What bound may we assign Last Line: Of all that creatures' wit can comprehend. AMENDMENT: 5 Poem Text First Line: Am I a glorious spring Last Line: Even like the sun, and be far more divine? AMENDMENT: 6 Poem Text First Line: Thy soul, o god, doth prize Last Line: Than as to us, from thee at first they came. AMENDMENT: 7 Poem Text First Line: O how doth sacred love Last Line: He made our souls to make his creatures higher. AN INFANT-EYE Poem Text First Line: A simple light from all contagion free Last Line: Inviting yet, and waiting thy command. Subject(s): Innocence; Vision ANOTHER Poem Text First Line: He seeks for ours as we do seek for his Last Line: Causing its being and its measure. Subject(s): God; Love BELLS Poem Text First Line: Hark! Hark, my soul! The bells do ring Last Line: Would yield or feel, or any excellence. Subject(s): Bells; Public Worship; Church Attendance BLISS Poem Text First Line: All bliss / consists in this Last Line: With greedier eyes, more boys tho men. Subject(s): Happiness; Worship; Joy; Delight CHRISTENDOM Poem Text First Line: When first mine infant-ear Last Line: Make up the king of glory's diadem. Subject(s): Christianity; Imagination; Fancy CHRISTIAN ETHICS: AS IN A CLOCK Poem Text First Line: As in a clock, 'tis hinder'd-force doth bring Last Line: In its relation deep and exquisite. Subject(s): Order CHRISTIAN ETHICS: CONTENTMENT Poem Text First Line: Contentment is a sleepy thing Last Line: Stretch'd out to all things, and with all content! Subject(s): Contentment CHRISTIAN ETHICS: DELIGHTS AND PLEASURES Poem Text First Line: All music, sauces, feasts, delights and pleasures Last Line: In temperance their sacred beauty find. Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition CHRISTIAN ETHICS: MANKIND IS SICK Poem Text First Line: Mankind is sick, the world distemper'd lies Last Line: How sweet a grace, how infinite! Subject(s): Sin CHRISTIAN ETHICS: POEM First Line: For man to act as if his soul did see Last Line: Surmount, and pass what it doth antedate CHURCHES Poem Text First Line: Those stately structures which on earth I view Last Line: Unto his temple, 'cause 'tis nearer home. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals CONSUMMATION Poem Text First Line: The thoughts of men appear Last Line: We all in their true nature find. Subject(s): Soul DESIRE Poem Text First Line: For giving me desire Last Line: As light in flame, and heat in fire. Subject(s): Desire; Love DISSATISFACTION Poem Text First Line: In clothes confin'd, my weary mind Last Line: Until the bible me supplied. Subject(s): Discontent; Dissatisfaction DREAMS Poem Text First Line: Tis strange! I saw the skies Last Line: From whence all joy, from whence all sorrow springs. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nightmares DUMBNESS Poem Text First Line: Sure man was born to meditate on things Last Line: And penetrate the heart, if not the ear. Subject(s): Babies; Freedom; Language; Infants; Liberty; Words; Vocabulary EASE Poem Text First Line: How easily doth nature teach the soul Last Line: That everyone might reign like god alone. Subject(s): Nature EDEN Poem Text First Line: A learned and a happy ignorance Last Line: The glorious wonders of the deity. Subject(s): Bible; God; Religion; Simplicity; Theology ENQUIRING SOUL Subject(s): Religion FELICITY Poem Text First Line: Prompted to seek my bliss above the skies Last Line: All interludes. Subject(s): God FULLNESS Poem Text First Line: That light, that sight, that thought Last Line: An oracle of his eternal love. Subject(s): Religion; Theology GOODNESS Poem Text First Line: The bliss of other men is my delight Last Line: The highest joys his goodness did prepare. Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight HOSANNA Poem Text First Line: No more shall walls, no more shall walls confine Last Line: His name, and when they do't be most my joys. Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise HYMN UPON ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY First Line: What powerful spirit lives within IN SALEM DWELT A GLORIOUS KING INNOCENCE Poem Text First Line: But that which most I wonder at, which most Last Line: I must become a child again. Subject(s): Bible; Innocence; Religion; Theology INSATIABLENESS Poem Text First Line: No walls confine! Can nothing hold my mind Last Line: One infinite. Subject(s): Greed; Soul; Avarice; Cupidity LOVE Poem Text First Line: O nectar! O delicious stream Last Line: His son, bride, glory, temple, end. Subject(s): God; Love MISAPPREHENSION Poem Text First Line: Men are not wise in their true interest Last Line: Yet lies within my womb. MY SPIRIT Poem Text First Line: My naked simple life was I Last Line: Exalted there they ought to shine. Subject(s): Metaphysics NATURE Poem Text First Line: That custom is a second nature, we Last Line: While how the same is so I comprehend. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Nature; Childhood ON CHRISTMAS DAY, SELS. First Line: Shake off thy sloth, my drowsy soul, awake ON CHRISTMAS-DAY Poem Text First Line: Shall dumpish melancholy spoil my joys Last Line: The minster rings. Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The ON LEAPING OVER THE MOON Poem Text First Line: I saw new worlds beneath the water lie Last Line: As o'er our heads, a place of bliss. Subject(s): Earth; Icarus; Moon; Mythology - Classical; World ON NEWS Poem Text First Line: News from a foreign country came Last Line: A small and little thing! Variant Title(s): News Subject(s): Innocence ON THE BIBLE First Line: When thou dost take this sacred book into they han Last Line: Where reverence alone stands open, and sense stands by Subject(s): Bible; Religion POEM ON MODERATION Poem Text First Line: In making bodies love could not express Last Line: God made man greater while he made him less. Subject(s): Creation; God; Soul POVERTY Poem Text First Line: As in the house I sate Last Line: But now I have a deity. Subject(s): Poverty PREPARATIVE (VERSION B) First Line: My body being dead, my limbs unknown Last Line: My soul get free, %and then thou may'st possess felicity RAPTURE (2). A THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER FOR THE NATION First Line: O lord, the children of my people are thy peculiar treasures Last Line: Carrying me unto thee, %the sea of goodness from whence they came Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving RIGHT APPREHENSION Poem Text First Line: Give but to things their true esteem Last Line: Wisdom and wealth couch'd in simplicity. Subject(s): Simplicity RISE, NOBLE SOUL Poem Text First Line: Rise, noble soul, and come away Last Line: We'll fold and mingle all the way. Subject(s): Love SHADOWS IN THE WATER Poem Text First Line: In unexperienced infancy Last Line: Is broken, be admitted in. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Mirrors; Childhood; Fancy SIGHT Poem Text First Line: Mine infant-eye Last Line: So that no light in heaven more clearly shines. Subject(s): Soul; Vision SILENCE Poem Text First Line: A quiet silent person may possess Last Line: Like god himself, and heaven and earth was there. Subject(s): Silence SIN Poem Text First Line: Sin! / o only fatal woe! Last Line: Within! Subject(s): Sin SOLITUDE Poem Text First Line: How desolate Last Line: Shall I thee find to ease my mind! O where! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SPEED Poem Text First Line: The liquid pearl in springs Last Line: These were the offspring of the deity. Subject(s): Growth THANKSGIVING FOR THE BEAUTY OF GOD'S PROVIDENCE (1) First Line: These sweeter far than lilies are THANKSGIVING FOR THE BEAUTY OF GOD'S PROVIDENCE (2) First Line: Who sees the ancient heavenly ways THANKSGIVINGS FOR THE BODY First Line: Bless the lord, o my soul: and all that is within me bless his holy name Last Line: O let me live in thy bosom forever THE ANTICIPATION Poem Text First Line: My contemplation dazzles in the end Last Line: That while we all, we him might comprehend. Subject(s): God THE APOSTASY Poem Text First Line: One star / is better far Last Line: I lost: my joy turn'd to a blaze. Variant Title(s): The Apostacy Subject(s): Innocence THE APPREHENSION Poem Text First Line: If this I did not every moment see Last Line: Was all my whole felicity. THE APPROACH Poem Text First Line: That childish thoughts such joys inspire Last Line: Instructed then even by the deity. Subject(s): God THE AUTHOR TO THE CRITICAL PERUSER Poem Text First Line: The naked truth in many faces shown Last Line: But god's diviner works do ne'er admire. THE BIBLE Poem Text First Line: That! That! There I was told Last Line: And shall be sated with celestial mirth. Subject(s): Bible THE CIRCULATION Poem Text First Line: As fair ideas from the sky Last Line: And all it doth receive returns again. Subject(s): Imagination; Soul; Fancy THE CITY Poem Text First Line: What structures here among god's works appear Last Line: More wealth provided, and more high. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THE DEMONSTRATION Poem Text First Line: The highest things are easiest to be shown Last Line: To whom in them himself, and all things tend. Subject(s): God; Truth THE DESIGN Poem Text First Line: When first eternity stoop'd down to nought Last Line: Even in that way that is the best. Variant Title(s): The Choice Subject(s): Time; Truth THE DIALOGUE Poem Text First Line: Why dost thou tell me that the fields are mine Last Line: Mean thee alone (my friend) in every deed. Subject(s): Mankind; Nature; Sun; Human Race THE ESTATE Poem Text First Line: But shall my soul no wealth possess Last Line: His ancient ways, are his, and my estate. Subject(s): Soul THE EVIDENCE Poem Text First Line: His word confirms the sale Last Line: Which made them all, and made them to be mine. THE IMAGE Poem Text First Line: If I be like my god, my king Last Line: Like me to lie. Subject(s): Creation; Mankind; Human Race THE IMPROVEMENT Poem Text First Line: Tis more to recollect, than make. The one Last Line: But, by their efficacy, all mine own. Subject(s): God; Mankind; Human Race THE INFERENCE: 1 Poem Text First Line: Well-guided thoughts within possess Last Line: I may possess of his eternal treasure. Subject(s): Details; Thought; Things; Thinking THE INFERENCE: 2 Poem Text First Line: David a temple in his mind conceiv'd Last Line: Expects from us, our sacrifice to be. Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.) THE INQUIRY Poem Text First Line: Men may delighted be with springs Last Line: And that his godhead in his works doth shine. Subject(s): Angels THE INSTRUCTION Poem Text First Line: Spew out thy filth, thy flesh abjure Last Line: In which all men at once conspire. Subject(s): Innocence THE ODOUR Poem Text First Line: These hands are jewels to the eye Last Line: If I the use of each don't apprehend. Subject(s): Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances THE PERSON Poem Text First Line: Ye sacred limbs Last Line: Shall themes become, and organs of thy praise. Subject(s): Bodies THE PREPARATIVE (VERSION A) Poem Text First Line: My body being dead, my limbs unknown Last Line: Get free, and so thou shalt even all admire. Subject(s): Soul THE RAPTURE (1) Poem Text First Line: Sweet infancy Last Line: Did make the same? What hand divine! Subject(s): Self THE RECOVERY (1) Poem Text First Line: To see us but receive, is such a sight Last Line: And is above all these as far as love. Subject(s): God THE RECOVERY (2) Poem Text First Line: Sin! Wilt thou vanquish me! Last Line: Shall thee destroy; heal, feed, make me divine. Subject(s): Sin THE RETURN Poem Text First Line: To infancy, o lord, again I come Last Line: My sweet companions all the year. Subject(s): Vision THE REVIEW Poem Text First Line: Did I grow, or did I stay Last Line: Shall still revive, and flourish in the dust. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Thought; Childhood; Thinking THE SALUTATION Poem Text First Line: These little limbs Last Line: That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass. THE VISION Poem Text First Line: Flight is but the preparative: the sight Last Line: Sees and enjoys the holy one. Subject(s): Self; Vision THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: When adam first did from his dust arise Last Line: And ever will the same. Subject(s): Earth; God; World THOUGHTS I Poem Text First Line: Ye brisk divine and living things Last Line: Ten thousand ages hence they are as young. Subject(s): God THOUGHTS II Poem Text First Line: A delicate and tender thought Last Line: Within the soul as more divine and pure. Subject(s): God THOUGHTS III Poem Text First Line: Thoughts are the angels which we send abroad Last Line: Which rightly used make his creatures kings. Subject(s): Thought; Thinking THOUGHTS IV Poem Text First Line: In thy presence there is fullness Last Line: In heaven, and I, o lord my god, with thee! TO THE SAME PURPOSE Poem Text First Line: To the same purpose: he, not long before Last Line: Tis want of sense that makes us poor. Subject(s): Moon WALKING Poem Text First Line: To walk abroad is, not with eyes Last Line: From viewing herbs and trees. Subject(s): Vision WHILE I, O LORD, EXALTED BY THY HAND WONDER Poem Text First Line: How like an angel came I down Last Line: When I was born. Subject(s): Faith; Innocence; Belief; Creed YE HIDDEN NECTARS Poem Text First Line: Ye hidden nectars, which my god doth drink Last Line: Will speak. For in the dark y'are paradise. |
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