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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RAPTURE (1), by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet infancy
Last Line: Did make the same? What hand divine!
Subject(s): Self
First Line: Sweet infancy
Last Line: Did make the same? What hand divine!
Subject(s): Self
1
Sweet infancy!
O fire of Heaven! O sacred light!
How fair and bright!
How great am I,
Whom all the world doth magnify!
2
O heavenly joy!
O great and sacred blessedness,
Which I possess!
So great a joy
Who did into my arms convey!
3
From God above
Being sent, the heavens me inflame,
To praise His name.
The stars do move!
The burning sun doth show His love.
4
O how divine
Am I! To all this sacred wealth,
This life and health,
Who rais'd? Who mine
Did make the same? What hand divine!
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AFTER LOOKING UP INTO ONE TOO MANY CAMERAS by HICOK. BOB
FOR A TALL HEADSTONE by JOHN HOLLANDER
SELF-EMPLOYED by DAVID IGNATOW