Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PSALM: 6, by JOSEPH HALL


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PSALM: 6, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let mee not lord
Last Line: And fly with sudden shame.
Subject(s): God; Pain; Praise; Soul; Tears; Suffering; Misery


1 Let mee not Lord
be in thy wrath reproued:
Oh! scourge mee not
when thy fierce rage is mooued.
2 Pity mee, Lord,
that do with languor pine:
Heale mee whose bones
with paine dissolued bin;
3 Whose weary soule
is vexed aboue measure.
Oh Lord how long
shall I 'bide thy displeasure!

4 Turne thee O Lord,
rescue my soule distrest;
5 And saue me, of thy grace.
Mongst those that rest,
In silent death
can none remember thee:
And in the graue
how shouldst thou praised be?
6 Weary with sighs,
all night I caus'd my bed
To swim: with teares
my couch I watered.

7 Deepe sorrow hath
consum'd my dimmed eyne,
Sunk in with griefe
at these leud foes of mine:
8 But now hence, hence,
vaine plotters of mine ill:
The Lord hath heard
my lamentations shrill;
9 God heard my suit
and still attends the same:
10 Blush now, my foes,
and fly with sudden shame.





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