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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE PREFACE, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long lookt for sir! Happy, right happy saint Last Line: My want of grace. Temptations too within. Subject(s): Puritans In Literature | |||
SOUL Long lookt for Sir! Happy, right Happy Saint. I long to lay before you my Complaint: And gain your Counsill: but you're strange: and I Through backwardness lost opportunity. SAINT How is't good Sir: methinks I finde there dart Some pleasant Hopes of you within my heart. What is your Rantery declinde, foregone? Your looks are like the Earth you Tread upon. SOUL Its true: I do, and well may look so, too For worse than mee the world did never show. My sins are dide in grain: all Grace I lack. This doth my Soul on tenterhooks enwrack. Wherefore I Counsill Crave touching my sin My Want of Grace. Temptations too within. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE JOY OF CHURCH FELLOWSHIP RIGHTLY ATTENDED by EDWARD TAYLOR PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 1 by EDWARD TAYLOR PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 32 by EDWARD TAYLOR PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 38 by EDWARD TAYLOR PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 8 by EDWARD TAYLOR PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 3 by EDWARD TAYLOR PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 56 by EDWARD TAYLOR THE EBB AND FLOW by EDWARD TAYLOR GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: CHRIST'S REPLY by EDWARD TAYLOR GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE JOY OF CHURCH FELLOWSHIP RIGHTLY ATTENDED by EDWARD TAYLOR |
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