Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 69, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dull! Dull! My lord, as if I eaten had Last Line: On my shoshannim's sweetest well tun'de string. Subject(s): Puritans In Literature | ||||||||
Dull! Dull! my Lord, as if I eaten had A Peck of Melancholy: or my Soule Was lockt up by a Poppy key, black, sad: Or had been fuddled with an Hen bane bowle. Oh, Leaden temper! my Rich Thesis Would Try metall to the back, sharp, it t'unfold. Alas! my Soule, Thy Sunburnt Skin looks dun: Thy Elementall jacket's Snake like pi'de. I am Deform'd, and Uggly all become. Soule Sicknesses do nest in mee: and Pride. I nauseous am: and mine iniquites Like Crawling Worms doe worm eat on my joys. All black though plac'de in a White lilly Grove: Not sweet, though in a bed of Lillies rowle, Though in Physicians shop I dwell, a Drove Of Hellish Vermin range all ore my Soul. All Spirituall Maladies play rex in mee, Though Christ should Lilly of my Vally bee. But, Oh! the Wonder! Christ alone the Sun Of Righteousness, that he might do the Cure The Lilly of the Vallies is become Whose Lillie properties do health restore. It's glory shews I'm filthy: yet must spring Up innocent, and beautifull by him. Its Vally State and Bowing Head declare I'm Haughty but must have a Humble minde. Its Healing Virtue shew I'm sick: yet rare Rich Remedies I'st in this Lilly finde. Yea Christ the Lilly of the Vallies shall Be to mee Glory, Med'cine, Sweetness, all. The Lillies Beautie, and its Fragrancy Shews my ill-favourdness, and Nauseous Stinck: And that I must be beautifull, fully, And breath a Sweetness that the aire must drink. This Beauty, Odour, Med'cin, Humble Case This Vallys Lilly shall my Soul begrace. Lord, make me th'Vally where this Lilly grows. Then I am thine, and thou art mine indeed. Propriety is mutuall: Glorious shows And Oderif'rous breath shall in me breed, Which twisted in my Tunes, thy praise shall ring On my Shoshannim's sweetest Well tun'de string. | 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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