Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PILGRIM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT First Line: Thanks, still encreasing turmoils; I Last Line: Then be possest by what I needs at length must leave. Subject(s): Christianity; Humility; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims | ||||||||
THANKS, still encreasing Turmoils; I Mistook you heertofore: But now I learn no more To chide with that Uncertainty Which hunts Me out in every Place, & tosses My settling Hopes through new disturbances & crosses. 2 I am content Life should with me Not play the Hypocrite By Baits of vain Delight And treacherous Stabilitie. Since all the Heavns are restless, why should I Desire with sordid Earth, in Quiet heer to ly? 3 Had I a fixed Home below, That stiff Temptation might My foolish Hart invite To hanker heer, & study how To plant my Self right deep & sure; whoe must Whither I will or no, alas, fall into Dust. 4 What though my Books & I be parted? I know all Freinds at last The parting Cup must taste. And now to me the World's converted Into one Library where I may read The mighty Leavs of Providence wide open spred. 5 Terrestrial Quiet I shall have More then enough, when I Sure & fast sealed ly In my deep silent Grave: Why should I plott & project how to be Aforehand buried in earthly Securitie? 6 Why should I wish to be at home, So long as I'm abroad? For what's Life but the Road By journying through which We come Unto our Fathers house: & happy We, Yf after all this journe We at home may be! 7 The Birds have Nests, the Foxes holes, But Heavns great Sonn had neither: And, tell me, hadst thou rather Live like the Foxes, & the Foules, Then like thy God; espetialy when He By's Providence to this brave Hardship lureth Thee. 8 Born in a borrowd house, & in A borrowd Cave interred, He first & last preferred What lazie Flesh & Blood doth shunn: He might have for his Palace heer had room, But scorned any Place but Heavn, to own for Home. 9 Blow then the worst of Blasts, & beat My Bark about the World; Still can I not be hurld Beyond ken of my Hav'n, nor meet One Place more distant then another, from The heavnly Port, to which alone I pant to come. 10 I pant to come; for what, what am I but a Stranger heer As all my Fathers were? Nor would I stay to learn & frame My Toung or Manners to this Countries guise, Which ne'r will suit with what's in fashion in the Skies. 11 But yf I must be thrown into Some seeming fixed Seat; So may I dwell in it, That it ne'r dwells in Me! O no; I rather heer would no Possessions have, Then be Possest by what I needs at length must leave. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1582 by NORMAN DUBIE THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1952 by NORMAN DUBIE GOAL by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE PILGRIM by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE PILGRIM [SONG], FR. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS by JOHN BUNYAN UP-HILL by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI AT ELLIS ISLAND by MARGARET LIVINGSTON CHANLER ALDRICH FAREWELL TO THE PILGRIMS by THEODORE M. BAKKE THE PILGRIM by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Γενεθλιακον by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Γενεθλιακον by JOSEPH BEAUMONT A CONCLUSORIE HUMNE TO THE SAME WEEK; & FOR MY FRIEND by JOSEPH BEAUMONT |
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