Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 147, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I angelick skill and on their wheele Last Line: Brightst in mine eyes to sing her praise and thine. Subject(s): Puritans In Literature | ||||||||
Had I Angelick skill and on their wheele Could spin the purest puld white silk into The finest twine and then the same should Reele And weave't a satten Web there in also Or finest Taffity with shines like gold And Deckt with pretious stones, brightst to behold. And all inwrought with needle work most rich, Even of the Holy Ghost to lap up in, My Heart full freight with love refinde, the Which Up on thy Glorious selfe I ever bring And for thy sake thy all fair spouse should wear't Some glances of the same I to her beare That Cloath her may who in her mourning Weeds As sorrowing she searches thee about That saith: Oh Shulamite Our eye much bleeds. Turn turn that it may look on thee right out. That we may looke upon thee, and behold Thy ravishing beauty that thy sweet face unfolds. That sparkling Airiness thy Cheeks do lodge Laid on them by the Holy Ghost in Grace, Do send such sparkling flashes without Dodge Those Charms that took our Eye in ery place A sight thereof which evermore would bed Upon those Cheeks of all their sight the head. The brightest beauty Pensill ever drew Laid in the Richest Colours gold could gain The shiningst glory the suns face ere knew The sparklingst shine nature did ere attain Are but black spot and smoot on brightest faces Unto thy beauty all enlaid with graces. The bodies Eyes are blind, no sight therein Is Cleare enough to take a sight of this. Its the internall Eye Sight takes this thing This glorious light the Sin blind Eye doth miss. Th'Internall Eye with Christ's Eye Salve annointed Is on this beauteous face alone well pointed. Hence'noint mine Eyes my Lord with thine Eye salve That they may view thy Spouses Beauty pure, Whose sight passt on thyselfe do thence Resolve To lodge and with the Shulamite Endure That grace shed from this fulness make her shine Brightst in mine Eyes to sing her praise and thine. | 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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