Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 106, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fain would prize, and praise thee, lord, but finde Last Line: That makes thy praises leape up from my heart. Subject(s): Puritans In Literature | ||||||||
I fain would Prize, and Praise thee, Lord, but finde My Prizing Faculty imprison'd lyes. That its Appreciation is confinde Within its prison walls and small doth rise. Its Prizing Act it would mount up so high That might oremount its possibility. I fain would praise thee, but want words to do't: And searching ore the realm of thoughts finde none Significant enough and therefore vote For a new set of Words and thoughts hereon And leap beyond the line such words to gain In other Realms, to praise thee: but in vain. Me pitty, parden mee and Lord accept My Penny Prize, and penny worth of Praise. Words and their Sense within thy bounds are kept And richer Fruits my Vintage cannot raise. I can no better bring, do what I can: Accept thereof and make me better man. With Consecrated Bread and Wine indeed Of Zions Floore, and Wine press me sustain. These fruits thy Boddy, and thy blood doth breed Thy Pay and Purchase for mee mee to gain. Lord make thy Vitall Principall in mee In Gospellwise to eate and drink on thee. These acts of mine that from thy Vitall Spark In mee being to thyself, my Lord, my Deare, As formative in touching thee their marke Of this thy Sacrament, my Spirituall Cheere. Life first doth Act and Faith that's lifes First-born Receiving gives the Sacramentall form. Hence its as needfull as the forme unto This Choice formation Hypocrites beg on. Elfes Vizzarded, and Lambskinde Woolves hence goe. Your Counterfeted Coine is worse than none. Your gilding though it may the Schoole beguile The Court will Cast and all your gilt off file. Morality is here no market ware, Although it in the Outward Court is free. A State of Sin this Banquet cannot beare. Old and New Cov'nant Guests here don't agree. The Wedden Robe is Welcome, but the back This Supper cloaths not with, that doth it lack. Food is for living Limbs, not Wooden legs: Life's necessary, unto nourishment. Dead limbs must be cut off: the Addle Eggs Rot by the heat the dam upon them spent. A State of Sin that takes this bread and Wine From the Signatum tareth off the Signe. A Principle of life, to eate implies, And of such life that sutes the Foods desire. Food naturall doth naturall Life supply. And spirituall food doth spirituall life require. The Dead don't eate. Though Folly childish dotes In th'Child that gives his Hobby horses oates. To Eat's an Act of life that life out sent Employing Food. Life's property alive Yet acts uniting with foods nourishment Which spreads o're nature quite to make it thrive. Life Naturall and Spirituall Life renewd Precedes their Acts, their Acts precede their food. Then form mee Lord, a former here to bee Of this thy Sacrament receiving here And let me in this Bread and Wine take thee: And entertain me with thy Spirituall Cheer. Which well Concocted will make joy up start, That makes thy praises leape up from my heart. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE JOY OF CHURCH FELLOWSHIP RIGHTLY ATTENDED by EDWARD TAYLOR GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE PREFACE 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 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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