Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DEVOTION, by HENRY MORE



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First Line: Good god! When thou thy inward grace dost shower
Last Line: Shall bear with courage, undeserved smart.


Good God! when thou thy inward grace dost shower
Into my brest,
How full of light and lively power
Is then my soul!
How am I blest!
How can I then all difficulties devour!
Thy might
Thy spright
With ease my combrous enemy controll.

If thou once turn away thy face and hide
Thy chearfull look,
My feeble flesh may not abide
That dreadfull stound,
I cannot brook
Thy absence. My heart with care and grief then gride
Doth fail,
Doth quail,
My life steals from me, at that hidden wound.

My phansie's then a burden to my mind,
Mine anxious thought
Betrayes my reason, makes me blind:
Near dangers drad
Make me distraught.
Supriz'd with fear, my senses all I find.
In hell
I dwell
Opprest with horrour, pain and sorrow sad.

My former Resolutions all are fled,
Slip't over my tongue,
My Faith, my Hope, and Joy, are dead.
Assist my heart
Rather then my song
My God! my Saviour! when I'm ill bested
Stand by,
And I
Shall bear with courage, undeserved smart.





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