Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE NEW-YEERES GIFT, OR CIRCUMCISIONS SONG, by ROBERT HERRICK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prepare for songs; he's come, he's come Last Line: Composed by m. Henry lawes. Subject(s): Circumcision | ||||||||
(SUNG TO THE KING IN THE PRESENCE AT WHITE-HALL) 1. Prepare for Songs; He's come, He's come; And be it sin here to be dumb, And not with Lutes to fill the roome. 2. Cast Holy Water all about, And have a care no fire gos out, But 'cense the porch, and place throughout. 3. The Altars all on fier be; The Storax fries; and ye may see, How heart and hand do all agree, To make things sweet. Chor. Yet all less sweet then He. 4. Bring Him along, most pious Priest, And tell us then, when as thou seest His gently-gliding, Dove-like eyes, And hear'st His whimp'ring, and His cries; How canst thou this Babe circumcise? 5. Ye must not be more pitifful then wise; For, now unlesse ye see Him bleed, Which makes the Bapti'me; 'tis decreed, The Birth is fruitlesse: Chor. Then the work God speed. 1. Touch gently, gently touch; and here Spring Tulips up through all the yeere; And from His sacred Bloud, here shed, May Roses grow, to crown His own deare Head. Chor. Back, back again; each thing is done With zeale alike, as 'twas begun; Now singing, homeward let us carrie The Babe unto His Mother Marie; And when we have the Child commended To her warm bosome, then our Rites are ended. Composed by M. Henry Lawes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ANOTHER NEW-YEERES GIFT, OR SONG FOR THE CIRCUMCISION by ROBERT HERRICK SACRED EPIGRAM: CHRIST, CIRCUMCISED, TO THE FATHER by RICHARD CRASHAW SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE BLOOD OF THE LORD'S CIRCUMCISION by RICHARD CRASHAW SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE CIRCUMCISION by RICHARD CRASHAW DAUGHTER OF MEN by LINDA STERN ZISQUIT A CHRISTMAS CAROL, SUNG TO THE KING IN THE PRESENCE AT WHITEHALL by ROBERT HERRICK A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS by ROBERT HERRICK A TERNARIE OF LITTLES, UPON A PIPKIN OF JELLIE by ROBERT HERRICK A THANKSGIVING TO GOD [FOR HIS HOUSE] by ROBERT HERRICK |
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