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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRAYER (1), by GEORGE HERBERT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prayer, the church's banquet, angels' age Last Line: The land of spices, something understood. Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Religion; Theology | |||
Prayer, the churches banquet, angels age, Gods breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth; Engine against th' Almightie, sinner's towre, Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear, The six-daies-world transposing in an houre, A kinde of tune, which all things heare and fear; Softnesse, and peace, and joy, and love, and blisse, Exalted manna, gladnesse of the best, Heaven in ordinarie, man well drest, The milkie way, the bird of Paradise, Church-bels beyond the stars heard, the souls bloud, The land of spices, something understood. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY A DIALOGUE ANTHEM by GEORGE HERBERT |
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