Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 48, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O! What a thing is might right mannag'd? 'twill Last Line: Of pearls to grace the tune my mite doth sing. Subject(s): Puritans In Literature | ||||||||
O! What a thing is Might right mannag'd? 'Twill That Proverb brain, whose face doth were this paint. (Might ore goe's Right) for might doth Right fulfill Will Right revive when wrong makes Right to faint. Might hatches Right: Right hatches Might, they are Each Dam, and Chick, to each: a Lovely paire. Then Might well mannag'd riseth mighty: yet Doth never rise up to Almightiness. Almightiness nere's in a mortall bit. But, Lord, thou dost Almightiness possess. Might in it's fulness: all mights Fulness bee Of ery Sort and Sise stow'd up in thee. But what am I, poor Mite, all mightless thing! That cannot rive a rush, that I should e're Adventure t'dress Almighty up, or bring Almightiness deckt in its mighty geere? Then spare my Stutting Stamring, inky Quill, If it its bowells on thy Power distill. My Mite (if I such Solicisms might But use) would spend its mitie Strength for thee Of Mightless might, of feeble stronge delight. Its little ALL thy Sacrifice showld bee. For thee't would mock at all the Might and Power That Earth, and Hell possess: and on thee shower. A Fig for Foes, for Divells, Hell, and all The powres of darkness, thou now on my Side Their Might's a little mite, Powers powerless fall. My Mite Almighty will not let down slide. I will not trust unto this Might of mine: Nor in my Mite distrust, while I am thine. Thy Love Almighty is, to Love mee deare, Thy Grace Almighty mee to save: thy Truth Almighty to depend on. Justice cleare Almighty t'justify, and judge. Grace shewth. Thy Wisdom too's Almighty all to eye, And Holiness is such to sanctify. If thy Almightiness, and all my Mite United be in sacred Marriage knot, My Mite is thine: Mine thine Almighty Might. Then thine Almightiness my Mite hath got. My Quill makes thine Almightiness a String Of Pearls to grace the tune my Mite doth sing. | 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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