Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE JEWS, by GEORGE HERBERT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor nation, whose sweet sap and juice Last Line: That your sweet sap might come again! Subject(s): Jews; Judaism | ||||||||
POORE nation, whose sweet sap and juice Our cyens have purloined, and left you drie; Whose streams we got by the apostles sluce, And use in baptisme, while ye pine and die: Who, by not keeping once, became a debter; And now, by keeping, lose the letter: Oh that my prayers! mine, alas! Oh that some angel might a trumpet sound; At which the church, falling upon her face, Should crie so loud, untill the trump were drown'd; And, by that crie, of her deare Lord obtain, That your sweet sap might come again! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD A LITTLE HISTORY by DAVID LEHMAN FOR I WILL CONSIDER YOUR DOG MOLLY by DAVID LEHMAN JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY by PHILIP LEVINE NATIONAL THOUGHTS by YEHUDA AMICHAI SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ... by MARVIN BELL A DIALOGUE ANTHEM by GEORGE HERBERT |
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