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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: herbert, george Matches Found: 319 Clarke, George Herbert 111 poems available by this author A CHILD'S EVENING HYMN Poem Text First Line: Shepherd jesus, in thy arms Last Line: Angels watching over me! A FOREST GRAVEYARD Poem Text First Line: The birds brood silent in the underbrush Last Line: Be I thy mourner, child, and thou my care! Subject(s): Forests; Graves; Humanity; Mourning; Nature; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement A FORETASTE OF SPRING Poem Text First Line: Sweet and golden afternoon Last Line: Night is nigh! Subject(s): Afternoon; Birds; Flowers; Laughter; Spring A GIRL'S COMPLAINT TO HER HEART Poem Text First Line: I felt a breeze blowing upon my brow Last Line: How may it hope for morning? It must die. Subject(s): Girls; Hearts; Hope; Love; Sleep; Optimism A GRACE BEFORE SHAKESPEARE Poem Text First Line: Weary and wishful of the woods, we hear Last Line: Always thyself abideth, calm and strong! Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Fate; Life; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Destiny; Dramatists A LAKE SUNRISE Poem Text First Line: Sheathed by the everlasting sky Last Line: Whereon an angel lingering may kneel and pray. Subject(s): Angels; Dawn; Lakes; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunrise; Pools; Ponds A LIFE BEYOND?' First Line: A life beyond? Not mine the mournful cry! A NIGHT ON THE SAINT LAWRENCE (RIMOUSKI) Poem Text First Line: If the world were itself alone, - mere mountains and seas and cities Last Line: Thou brooding, loving artist, whose holiest name is beauty. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Creative Ability; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Rivers; Inspiration; Creativity; Bedtime A PRIEST OF HUMANITY Poem Text First Line: Of sorrows bitter-strange is wove his fate Last Line: More bitter is the grief that eats his heart! Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Jesus Christ; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery A SETTLER'S GRAVE Poem Text First Line: Far on the outflung headland thou dost lie Last Line: And in the boughs above the redbirds nest? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Nature; Pioneers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A SONNET OF SPOUSAL Poem Text First Line: Over the mountain hangs the hush of dawn Last Line: And worship in its holy evening hour! Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Maturity; Nature; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SUMMER NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Silent the vast of night Last Line: And share my brothers' silence. Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Silence; Summer; Bedtime A VOICE TO THE DYING Poem Text First Line: Unknown and uncounted the years thou hadst / lain in my bosom Last Line: But never to be parted from her that bids thee come! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Future Life; Mothers; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A WINTER TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: The year has reached december days Last Line: And so he dreams himself to rest. Subject(s): Animals; December; Dogs; Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Winter; Male-female Relations AMOR SEMPITERNUS Poem Text First Line: When first I found thee, ruth, I thought: 'how rare!' Last Line: Remembering a chaos of caresses. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Luck; Marriage; Passion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN OLD MASTER Poem Text First Line: I saw a picture yesternight Last Line: The white-pure moon looked out. Subject(s): Beauty; Moon; Storms; Transience; Impermanence ANTINOMY Poem Text First Line: There is no truth! Last Line: This evil thing ye publish her woman-eyes disprove. Subject(s): Disdain; Lies; Love; Truth; Women; Scorn ARIEL'S REVENGE Poem Text First Line: In olden time sprite ariel would fly Last Line: T is thou hast freed us, and we love thee well! Subject(s): Angels; Forgiveness; Humanity; Love; Clemency AT PARTYING Poem Text First Line: The night is silent, love, and here beside thee Last Line: Ah, holy, holy moment of farewell! Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Love; Silence; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness AT THE SHRINE Poem Text First Line: Mary, humanity's woman, immaculate mother Last Line: Is it thou, thou alone, that art pure, and never another? Subject(s): Future Life; Humanity; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Virgin Mary BOUNTY Poem Text First Line: A child and a rose Last Line: Child, rose and white soul of his mother! Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Friendship; Mothers; Roses; Childhood BROWN FELLOW' First Line: Brown fellow, rusty fellow, better cease your wooing CHILDWIST Poem Text First Line: Rapt dreamer, what revealments dost thou see? Last Line: Still silent cherish till the daylight dies! Subject(s): Dreams; Wisdom; Youth; Nightmares CHRIST BEFORE PILATE First Line: He is a man - magnanimous broad brow Last Line: Waking - the thorn-crowned to be crucified, - %roman and galilean slow returned Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice DAS EWIG-WEIBLICHE Poem Text First Line: Last night I saw thee gliding to my bed Last Line: "mother, and wife, and sister,—one in three!" Subject(s): Comfort; Death - Mothers; Sleep; Women; Dead, The DAY'S END IN DURHAM Poem Text First Line: In the abbey at durham, / with its great stony silence Last Line: I wondered, and woke. Subject(s): Durham, England; Dusk; Prayer; Silence; Wisdom DAYBREAK Poem Text First Line: Sun! Sun! Sun! Sun! Last Line: Sun! Sun! Sun! Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sun; Sunrise DELIA AND I Poem Text First Line: Delia and I are driving alone Last Line: Learning the roads that lead lovers to rome! Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Lent; Love; Pleasure; Wagons DEUS INENARRABILIS Poem Text First Line: Did ever author pen a book Last Line: That men might make a book of it. Subject(s): Books; Creative Ability; God; Writing & Writers; Reading; Inspiration; Creativity ECCLESIASTES First Line: God speaks. Life beats within the brain FACES Poem Text First Line: There are two pictures hanging on my wall Last Line: And mary maiden gray the mother of me! Subject(s): Creative Ability; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women; Women In The Bible; Inspiration; Creativity; Virgin Mary; Theology GOD'S EYES Poem Text First Line: Father, what colour are god's eyes Last Line: God's eyes change slow from shade to shade. Subject(s): Eyes; Fathers & Daughters; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Truth HALT AND PARLEY Poem Text First Line: Good toll-gate keeper, kindle a light! Last Line: Poor clod—while you've parried and parleyed out there. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HAMLET Poem Text First Line: He would see all, this thinker! He would see Last Line: Sink into nothing while he stares at fate. Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Love; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Destiny HER HEART BREADS SILENCE Poem Text First Line: Because that thou art pale and cold and still Last Line: His holiest honour in this faithful breast! Subject(s): Knowledge; Love; Pain; Secrets; Winter; Suffering; Misery LA PUCELLE DE VERCHERES Poem Text First Line: Name of heaven! 'no woman, 'you say, 'may be Last Line: But to test our own was madeleine's soul lent us from heaven an hour. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Religion; United States - Colonial Period; Women; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Theology LAST MOBILIZATION First Line: England, we come LES CAMARADES EN VOYAGE Poem Text First Line: The vessel is restlessly rushing over the waters Last Line: And as they step upon the pier, lo the whiteness there! Subject(s): Boats; Moon; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips LINES WRITTEN IN SURREY, 1917 Poem Text First Line: A sudden swirl of song in the bright sky Last Line: Of english daisies dancing in english dells. Subject(s): England; World War I - Great Britain; English LOVE'S SIMILITUDES Poem Text First Line: In vernal grove a poplar slim Last Line: Perfection's perfected in thee! Subject(s): Creative Ability; Love; Metaphor; Nature; Trees; Inspiration; Creativity; Similes LYRICS OF THE RAIL: 1. THE SCORNED TOWN Poem Text First Line: The green fields waver, break a space Last Line: A phantom never seen! Subject(s): Fields; Men; Railroads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Railways; Trains LYRICS OF THE RAIL: 2. THE CANYON Poem Text First Line: The sky withdraws, the cutting narrows Last Line: Plunges the train at set of sun. Subject(s): Canyons; Evening; Men; Railroads; Sunset; Twilight; Railways; Trains LYRICS OF THE RAIL: 3. THE SLEEPING-CAR Poem Text First Line: The land is silent, and the moon Last Line: The heart's assumptions and its pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Moon; Railroads; Silence; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips MOTIONLESS First Line: Motionless, upon her bed O EARTH, WHAT CHANGES!' (MACAULAY'S NEW ZEALANDER) First Line: He climbed no more, but turned at dusk of day OFF DUTY; FLEET AIR ARM First Line: Far had he hurled his bomber through the sky Last Line: Crumble and plunge, and wing the sky no more Subject(s): World War Ii ON A FRIENDS DEATH Poem Text First Line: We thought that death was hard and harsh, a doomer of dread power Last Line: Ah no! His wings wave gently as the petals of a flower. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Immortality; Love; Nature; Dead, The ON MY DOG'S DEATH Poem Text First Line: My friend has gone Last Line: I am learning to listen. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Faith; Friendship; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness OUTWARD BOUND Poem Text First Line: Sailing, sailing, / over the waters and over the world Last Line: Our eeriest fancies, strangest fears. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips OVER SALEVE I HEARD A SKYLARK SINGING PAURA NON E NELLA CARITA Poem Text First Line: The place, a tuscan churchyard, and the time Last Line: And smile to hear the fatal words she saith! Subject(s): Autumn; Cemeteries; Death; Messages & Messengers; Seasons; Tuscany, Italy; Fall; Graveyards; Dead, The PETRI INTERROGATO; AFTER DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI First Line: Diligis me, simon joannis?' Last Line: Pasce oves, %pasce,' dicit, %'pecudes!' Subject(s): Latin PIPPA AND HER FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: Her flowers? The martagon flame-lily glowing Last Line: Shames into silence death's despairful creed. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Girls; Happiness; Heart's-ease (flower); Lilies; Dead, The; Joy; Delight QUO ABEO? Poem Text First Line: The flood flows down, the sails are spreading Last Line: Alone, alone! Subject(s): Faith; God; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Travel; Belief; Creed; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips RENUNCIATION Poem Text First Line: I have lost you, my friend Last Line: Me! Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations RESENTMENT First Line: The ocean bursts in very wrath RUINS (YPRES, 1917) Poem Text First Line: Ruins of trees whose woeful arms Last Line: Clay crumbling slow to clay again. Subject(s): World War I; Ypres, Belgium; First World War SANTA MARIA DEL FIORE First Line: Summits and valed, sl;im cypresses and pines Subject(s): Florence, Italy SEA-SECRETS Poem Text First Line: Little one, woman-one, whither are you sailing? Last Line: Is my heart your haven, or his? Subject(s): Fidelity; Love Affairs; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Secrets; Faithfulness; Constancy; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SECOND THOUGHTS Poem Text First Line: Was it I who dreamed Last Line: In the endless, love! Subject(s): Doubt; Dreams; Faith; Love; Perseverance; Skepticism; Nightmares; Belief; Creed SERENADE Poem Text First Line: The leaves in the shadows Last Line: The silence sing for me. Subject(s): Love; Night; Silence; Bedtime SHE IS NOT DEAD' First Line: She is not dead: it shall not be SKATER AND WOLVES First Line: Swifter the flight! Far, far and high Subject(s): Sports; Winter SONG OF THE EVENING CLOUD Poem Text First Line: Mother, o mother, moon my mother Last Line: Brighten us, lighten us, brother and brother! Subject(s): Comfort; Evening; Moon; Mothers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunset; Twilight STORM STILL' First Line: Drenching the moors, and through the forest-glooms TEMPEST-TOST Poem Text First Line: In a flash the rain roars down Last Line: There's a whispering promise-refrain. Subject(s): Love; Prayer; Rain; Salvation; Storms THE AERONAUT Poem Text First Line: Paean, sing paean! / for I have made me wings Last Line: "thy courier I!'?" Subject(s): Flight; Love; Religion; Flying; Theology THE AMERICAN BLACK (A STUDY IN RACE CONSCIOUSNESS) Poem Text First Line: Night! Night! / and of the dawn no promise. Wrong is right Last Line: And dream of freedom that is not a name. Subject(s): African Americans; Freedom; Pain; Slavery; United States - Race Relations; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty; Suffering; Misery; Serfs THE CHESS-PLAYER Poem Text First Line: I played at chess with lasker, but to lose Last Line: As I played lasker, so I challenge life! Subject(s): Chess; Failure; Life; Strength THE CHIEF WITNESS Poem Text First Line: Her that hath hid a babe beneath her breast Last Line: "through me the race aspires from man to man!" Subject(s): Humanity; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Sons; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE DREAM OF DREAMS Poem Text First Line: However real it seem, / sleeping we or waking Last Line: Life is a dream, a dream? Subject(s): Dreams; Humanity; Life; Nightmares THE EARTHQUAKE Poem Text First Line: A rolling, grinding rumble: a sharp shudder Last Line: Dust and darkness! Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Fire THE EYES OF THE EAST Poem Text First Line: I sing the east at sunset, the low east Last Line: With awe are holden and with strange surmise. Subject(s): Evening; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Sun; Sunset; Twilight; Songs THE FIREFLY Poem Text First Line: While on my bed I lay, watching the night Last Line: Compelling, and his radiant name is love. Subject(s): Fireflies; Insomnia; Love; Memory; Glowworms; Sleeplessness THE GOD OF THE GULLS Poem Text First Line: O the god of the gulls goes straight and swift Last Line: Over the secret sea. Subject(s): Birds; God; Gulls; Nature - Religious Aspects; Travel; Seagulls; Journeys; Trips THE HERETIC Poem Text First Line: He gives to death world-prejudice. World-woe Last Line: To seek a truce of heaven with heaven's god. Subject(s): Faith; God; Heresy; Belief; Creed; Heretics THE LAST DESIRE Poem Text First Line: From dreamless nights to wake to mocking morrows Last Line: How blest a thing to die, if this be dying! Subject(s): Comfort; Insomnia; Sleep; Sleeplessness THE LAST LULLABY Poem Text First Line: The shepherd moon mothers her shining sheep Last Line: Wait what it saith! Subject(s): Comfort; Moon; Nature - Religious Aspects; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Silence; Sleep THE MASTER-WOOER Poem Text First Line: I saw thy heart to-day Last Line: The rock shall yield herself to him for aye. Subject(s): Hearts; Man-woman Relationships; Perseverance; Stones; Male-female Relations; Granite; Rocks THE MOON, AND MY LOVE, AND I THE MOTHER Poem Text First Line: Hark, hark! / did you not hear a sound from out the dark Last Line: Save me alone? The people there are dead! Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Fear; Mothers; Childhood THE NOVICE Poem Text First Line: She had a lover in the world Last Line: "o mary, thou'rt a woman, too!" Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Nuns; Pain; Prayer; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery THE PERFECT COMRADE Poem Text First Line: The perfect comrade says nothing, nothing Last Line: With twin stars, shining serenely. Subject(s): Comfort; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE RAIN IT RAINETH' First Line: To green the grass THE RETURN Poem Text First Line: Helen softly stole to me just now Last Line: Helen died a year ago to-day. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Presence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations THE SILENT SISTERS OF THE POOR Poem Text First Line: Meekly, with folded hands and patient brows Last Line: Meekly, with patient brows and folded hands. Subject(s): Charity; Humanity; Nuns; Poverty; Philanthropy THE TOUCH Poem Text First Line: Age-old, age-silent, nature queen Last Line: Wavers along the boughs. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Spring; Touch (sense) THE TRANSFIGURER Poem Text First Line: O sweet to hear thy name on friendly tongue Last Line: For thou art love, and loved, and lover all. Subject(s): Faith; Love; Metamorphosis; Religion; Transfiguration; Belief; Creed; Theology THE TWO FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: Helen wore it in her hair Last Line: No little flower so holy anywhere! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE VIRGIN OF ALBERT (NOTRE DAME DE BREBIERES) Poem Text First Line: Shyly expectant, gazing up at her Last Line: "and comfort them, and hearken all their prayers!" Subject(s): Notre Dame De Brebieres (basilica); Prayer; World War I; First World War THE WINE OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: The wine of love, - a winged wine Last Line: I quaff, and all the world is mine. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Love Affairs; Wine TO A BUTTERFLY Poem Text First Line: Butterfly Last Line: While with thee I wander! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature - Religious Aspects; Wandering & Wanderers; Bugs; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes TO A CLASS IN SHAKESPEARE Poem Text First Line: Gossip of swains befooled by fairy charm Last Line: Because they've walked together and with him. Subject(s): Dramatists; Happiness; Humanity; Music & Musicians; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Teaching & Teachers; Joy; Delight; Dramatists; Educators; Professors TO A FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Through drenching deeps a ship is sailing Last Line: Beckons and governs me! Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails TO A YOUNG GIRL Poem Text First Line: Do not forget, / when you are old Last Line: "once and for aye enshrined you as her lover." Subject(s): Aging; Death; Honor; Love Affairs; Youth; Dead, The TO AN UNNAMED LADY Poem Text First Line: When there are others by, in vain I dream Last Line: For here th' eternal mysteries abide! Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets; Male-female Relations TO GEORGE BORROW (LAVENGRO) Poem Text First Line: No 'book,' but your own heart, was written, borrow Last Line: Knight of the ancient ruth and fearless fibre! Subject(s): Borrow, George (1803-1881); Depression, Mental; Hope; Writing & Writers; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Optimism TO HARRIET SHELLEY Poem Text First Line: As some blithe schooner sailing on the breast Last Line: The silent dark thereafter to inherit! Subject(s): Fate; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Shelley, Harriet Westbrook; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Destiny; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips TO JOHN KEATS Poem Text First Line: Severn, I feel the flowers o'er me grow,' Last Line: Greening above you in eternal spring. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Funerals; Future Life; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO LAURE Poem Text First Line: Laure, when I look on thee Last Line: And still its sovran art. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Redemption; Salvation; Male-female Relations TO MASTER HENRY FIELDING Poem Text First Line: I' faith, good hal, you have a saucy wit Last Line: From storks to weeds and willows! Subject(s): Creative Ability; Fielding, Henry (1707-1754); Honor; Passion; Inspiration; Creativity TO MISS JANE AUSTEN Poem Text First Line: Madam, I must express respectful wonder Last Line: Our people are creations. Subject(s): Austen, Jane (1775-1817); Critics & Criticism; Novels & Novelists; Writing & Writers TO MY LORD VERULAM Poem Text First Line: Of mankind meanest!' out upon the pen Last Line: The way more sure appearing. Subject(s): Honor; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Ethics TO NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Cooling, quieting night Last Line: And be at one with the silent three that brood and move in the shadow of god! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; God; Night; Parents; Dead, The; Bedtime; Parenthood TO SHAKESPEARE'S MOTHER Poem Text First Line: Did he, madonna, on thy bosom turning Last Line: Girlish ophelia's love, and juliet's grave. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dramatists; Legacies; Mothers & Sons; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women; Inspiration; Creativity; Dramatists TO THE FRIENDLIEST OF POETS Poem Text First Line: Chaucer, kind heart, who with the score and ten Last Line: Your frank and winsome rhyme! Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Honor; Poetry & Poets; Wisdom TRYST Poem Text First Line: I thought to have made her my bride Last Line: We leave to love. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Marriage; Reunions; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives UNTIL DEATH US DO PART' First Line: She never meant to leave me so WAITING Poem Text First Line: Again, a song! / would he be silent? Silence and doubt are wrong Last Line: And in the cold night lies my life, under a beechen tree! Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Singing & Singers; Waiting; Joy; Delight; Songs WANGA NZAMBI, WANGA?' First Line: O warm upleaping, swift flame-flowing YONDER HE LIES Fullerton, George Herbert 1 poems available by this author DISCLOSED Poem Text First Line: Thrice have I seen the living soul disclosed Last Line: Each held a beauteous soul which god had given. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature; Soul Gibson, G. H. Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ironbark; Gibson, George Herbert 3 poems available by this author JONES'S SELECTION Poem Text First Line: You hear a lot of new-chum talk Last Line: The land don't get on yous. Subject(s): Death; Environment; Punishment; Dead, The; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation MY MATE BILL Poem Text First Line: That's his saddle across the tie-beam, an' them's his spurs up there Last Line: As'll make them toney seraphs sit back on their thrones an' stare! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise Herbert, George Poet's Biography 198 poems available by this author A DIALOGUE ANTHEM Poem Text First Line: Alas, poor death, where is thy glory? Last Line: Thou so much worse, that thou shalt be no more. Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed A PARODIE Poem Text First Line: Soul's joy, when thou art gone Last Line: Thou com'st, and dost relieve. Variant Title(s): A Parody A SONNET SENT HOME FROM COLLEGE Poem Text First Line: My god, where is that ancient heat towards thee Last Line: Then that which, one day, worms may chance refuse? Variant Title(s): To His Mother; As A New Year's Gift From Cambridge;the Resolve A TRUE HYMN [HYMNE] Poem Text First Line: My joy, my life, my crown Last Line: O, could I love! And stops; god writeth, loved. Subject(s): Worship A WREATH Poem Text First Line: A wreathed garland of deserved praise Last Line: For this poore wreath, give thee a crown of praise. Subject(s): Simplicity AARON Poem Text First Line: Holiness on the head Last Line: Come, people: aaron's drest. Subject(s): Aaron AFFLICTION (1) Poem Text First Line: When first thou didst entice to thee my heart Last Line: Let me not love thee, if I love thee not. AFFLICTION (2) Poem Text First Line: Kill me not ev'ry day Last Line: By way of imprest, all my future mone. AFFLICTION (3) Poem Text First Line: My heart did heave, and there came forth, o god! Last Line: Thou dying dayly, praise thee to thy losse. AFFLICTION (4) Poem Text First Line: Broken in pieces all asunder Last Line: Till I reach heav'n, and much more thee. AFFLICTION (5) Poem Text First Line: My god, I read this day Last Line: That thy bright beams may tame thy bow. AN OFFERING Poem Text First Line: Come, bring thy gift. If blessings were as slow Last Line: And be my salvation. ANAGRAM OF THE VIRGIN MARY Poem Text First Line: How well her name an army doth present Last Line: In whom the lord of hosts did pitch his tent! Variant Title(s): Ana-{mary/army}gram;ana {mary Army} Gram;ana (mary Army) Gram Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ANTIPHON (1) Poem Text First Line: Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing Last Line: My god and king. ANTIPHON (2) Poem Text First Line: Praised be the god of love Last Line: Who hath made of two folds one. ARTILLERIE Poem Text First Line: As I one evening sat before my cell Last Line: "I am but finite, yet thine infinitely." Variant Title(s): Artillery Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed ASSURANCE Poem Text First Line: O spiteful bitter thought Last Line: Now love and truth will end in man. AVARICE Poem Text First Line: Money, thou bane of bliss and source of woe Last Line: And, while he digs out thee, falls in the ditch. Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity BITTER-SWEET Poem Text First Line: Ah, my dear angry lord Last Line: I will lament and love. BUSINESSE Poem Text First Line: Canst be idle? Canst thou play Last Line: Neither sinne nor saviour feels. Variant Title(s): Business CHARMS AND KNOTS Poem Text First Line: Who reade a chapter when they rise Last Line: But who drinks on, to hell may go. CHURCH First Line: A broken altar, lord, thy servant rears Last Line: Glory be to god on high, and on earth %peace, good will toward all people CHURCH LOCK AND KEY Poem Text First Line: I know it is my sin which locks thine ears Last Line: His blouds sweet current much more loud to be. CHURCH MILITANT First Line: Almighty lord, who from thy glorious throne Last Line: Blessed be god alone, %thrice blessed three in one CHURCH MONUMENTS Poem Text First Line: While that my soul repairs to her devotion Last Line: That thou mayst fit thyself against thy fall. Subject(s): Consolation; Monuments CHURCH RENTS AND SCHISMES Poem Text First Line: Brave rose, (alas!) where art thou? In the chair Last Line: Which falls by night, and poure it out for you! CHURCH-MUSICK [CHURCH MUSIC] Poem Text First Line: Sweetest of sweets, I thank you: when displeasure Last Line: You know the way to heavens doore. Subject(s): Music & Musicians CLASPING OF HANDS Poem Text First Line: Lord, thou art mine, and I am thine Last Line: Or rather make no thine and mine! COMPLAINING Poem Text First Line: Do not beguile my heart Last Line: That I may climbe and finde relief. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology CONFESSION Poem Text First Line: O what a cunning guest Last Line: They shall be thick and cloudie to my breast. CONSCIENCE Poem Text First Line: Peace prattler, do not lour [lowre] Last Line: Is both my physick and my sword. Subject(s): Conscience CONSTANCY Poem Text First Line: Who is the honest man? Last Line: Who still is right, and prayes to be so still. CONTENT Poem Text First Line: Peace mutt'ring thoughts, and do not grudge to keep Last Line: Hath ever found a happie fortune. CONVERT First Line: If ever teares did flow from eyes DEATH Poem Text First Line: Death, thou wast once an uncouth hideous thing Last Line: Making our pillows either down, or dust. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DECAY Poem Text First Line: Sweet were the dayes, when thou didst lodge with lot Last Line: And, calling justice, all things burn. DENIAL [OR, DENIALL] Poem Text First Line: When my devotions could not pierce Last Line: And men my rhyme. Subject(s): Christianity; Worship DIALOGUE Poem Text First Line: Sweetest saviour, if my soul Last Line: Man. Ah, no more! Thou break'st my heart! DISCIPLINE Poem Text First Line: Throw away thy rod Last Line: Throw away thy wrath. Subject(s): Discipline; Repentance; Penitence DIVINITIE Poem Text First Line: As men, for fear the starres should sleep and nod Last Line: To heav'n alone both go and leade. Variant Title(s): Divinity DOOM'S DAY Poem Text First Line: Come away / make no delay Last Line: And the musick shall be praise. Variant Title(s): Doomsday DOTAGE Poem Text First Line: False glozing pleasures, casks of happinesse Last Line: Then miseries are here! DULLNESS Poem Text First Line: Why do I languish thus, drooping and dull Last Line: What angel fit? Subject(s): Consolation EASTER Poem Text First Line: Rise heart; thy lord is risen. Sing his praise Last Line: There is but one, and that one ever. EASTER Poem Text First Line: Rise heart; thy lord is risen. Sing his praise Last Line: There is but one, and that one ever. EASTER First Line: I had prepared many a flower EASTER WINGS Poem Text First Line: Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store Last Line: Affliction shall advance the flight in me. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Easter; God; Holidays; Religion; Wings; The Resurrection; Theology EMPLOYMENT (1) Poem Text First Line: If as a flower doth spread and die Last Line: To my poore reed. EMPLOYMENT (2) Poem Text First Line: He that is weary, let him sit Last Line: Until the grave increase our cold. EVEN-SONG (2) First Line: The day is spent, and hath his will on me Last Line: And wake with thee forever EVENSONG First Line: The day is spent, and has his will on me Last Line: And wake with thee forever EVENSONG (1) Poem Text First Line: Blest be the god of love Last Line: And in this love, more than in bed, I rest. Variant Title(s): Evensong FAITH Poem Text First Line: Lord, how couldst thou so much appease Last Line: Reserving all for flesh again. Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed FINIS First Line: Glory to be god on high %and on earth peace Last Line: Goodwill towards men FRAILTY Poem Text First Line: Lord, in my silence how I do despise Last Line: Planted in me. GIDDINESSE Poem Text First Line: Oh, what a thing is man! How farre from power Last Line: Our own salvation. Variant Title(s): Giddiness GOOD FRIDAY Poem Text First Line: O my chief good Last Line: And all the writings blot or burn. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GRACE Poem Text First Line: My stock lies dead, and no increase Last Line: Drop from above. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology GRIEF Poem Text First Line: O who will give me tears? Come all ye springs Last Line: Alas, my god! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEVE NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT Poem Text First Line: And art thou grieved, sweet and sacred dove Last Line: My want of tears with store of bloud. Variant Title(s): Ephes. 4. 30. Grieve Not The Holy Spirit, Etc. Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence H. BAPTISME (1) Poem Text First Line: As he that sees a dark and shadie grove Last Line: Your first acquaintance might discredit all. Variant Title(s): Holy Baptism (1) H. BAPTISME (2) Poem Text First Line: Since, lord, to thee Last Line: Childhood is health. Variant Title(s): Holy Baptisme;holy Baptism (2) Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: O who will show me those delights on high? Last Line: Echo. Ever. Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise HOLY CHRISTMAS Poem Text First Line: All after pleasures as I rid one day Last Line: Till ev'n his beams sing, and my music shine. Variant Title(s): Christmas Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The HOLY COMMUNION First Line: O gracious lord, how shall I know Last Line: My god, give me all of thee HOME Poem Text First Line: Come, lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick Last Line: Or take me up to thee! Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise HOPE Poem Text First Line: I gave to hope a watch of mine: but he Last Line: I did expect a ring. Subject(s): Bible; Hope; Religion; Optimism; Theology HUMILITIE Poem Text First Line: I saw the vertues sitting hand in hand Last Line: At the next session-day. Variant Title(s): Humility JESU Poem Text First Line: Jesu is in my heart, his sacred name Last Line: And to my whole is jesu. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology JORDAN (1) Poem Text First Line: Who says that fictions only and false hair Last Line: Who plainly say, my god, my king. Subject(s): Jordan River; Truth; Worship JORDAN (2) Poem Text First Line: When first my lines of heavenly joys made mention Last Line: Copie out onely that, and save expense. Subject(s): Jordan River JOSEPH'S COAT Poem Text First Line: Wounded I sing, tormented I indite Last Line: My joyes to weep, and now my griefs to sing. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology JUDGEMENT Poem Text First Line: Almighty judge, how shall poor wretches brook Last Line: There thou shalt finde my faults are thine. Subject(s): Judges; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man JUSTICE (1) Poem Text First Line: I cannot skill of these thy ways Last Line: I cannot skill of these my ways. JUSTICE (2) Poem Text First Line: O dreadfull justice, what a fright and terrour Last Line: Against me there is none, but for me much. Subject(s): Justice KNELL First Line: The bell doth toll Last Line: Juleps and cordials when we call on thee %for some relief L'ENVOY (1) Poem Text First Line: King of glory, king of peace Last Line: Thrice blessed three in one. L'ENVOY (2) First Line: Shine on, maiestick soule, abide Last Line: Eternity into one bed Variant Title(s): Envoy. To The Same. Anothe LENT Poem Text First Line: Welcome deare feast of lent: who loves not thee Last Line: And among those his soul. Subject(s): Lent LIFE [AND THE FLOWERS] Poem Text First Line: I made a posie [posy], while the day ran by Last Line: It be as short as yours. Variant Title(s): Life Subject(s): Life; Posies LONGING Poem Text First Line: With sick and famished eyes Last Line: Which dyes. LOVE (1) Poem Text First Line: Immortal love, author of this great frame Last Line: Doth warm our hands, and make them write of love. LOVE (2) Poem Text First Line: Immortal heat, o let thy greater flame Last Line: And praise him who did make and mend our eies. LOVE (3) Poem Text First Line: Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back Last Line: So I did sit and eat. Variant Title(s): A Dialogue Between God And The Soul Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Eucharist; Faith; Forgiveness; Grace; Jesus Christ; Love; Love - Marital; Religion; Sin; Communion; Belief; Creed; Clemency; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology LOVE (4) First Line: Thou art too hard for me in love Last Line: Hell, death, and devil come short of me Variant Title(s): Love (2 LOVE UNKNOWN Poem Text First Line: Dear friend, sit down, the tale is long and sad Last Line: Who fain would have you be new, tender, quick. LOVE-JOY Poem Text First Line: As on a window late I cast mine eye Last Line: The man reply'd; it figures jesus christ. MAN Poem Text First Line: My god, I heard this day Last Line: And both thy servants be. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race MAN'S MEDLEY Poem Text First Line: Hark, how the birds do sing Last Line: To turn his double pains to double praise. MARY MAGDALENE Poem Text First Line: When blessed marie wip'd her saviours feet Last Line: And yet, in washing one, she washed both. Variant Title(s): Marie Magdalene Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MATINS Poem Text First Line: I cannot ope mine eyes Last Line: Then by a sunne-beam I will climb to thee. Variant Title(s): Mattens MISERY [MISERIE] Poem Text First Line: Lord, let the angels praise thy name Last Line: My god, I mean myself. MORTIFICATION Poem Text First Line: How soon doth man decay! Last Line: That all these dyings may be life in death. NATURE Poem Text First Line: Full of rebellion, I would die Last Line: To hide my dust then thee to hold. NOW I AM HERE, WHAT THOU WILT DO WITH ME Last Line: Her household to me, and I should be just Subject(s): Environment; Trees OBEDIENCE Poem Text First Line: My god, if writings may Last Line: Entred for both, farre above their desert! ON HENRY DANVERS EARL OF DANBY Poem Text First Line: Sacred marble, safely keep Last Line: Another monument to thee. ON SIR HOUHN DANVERS First Line: Passe not by OUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD (COLOSSIANS 3:3) Poem Text First Line: My words and thoughts do both expressse this notion Last Line: To gain at harvest an eternal treasure. Variant Title(s): Coloss. 3. 3. Our Life Is Hide With Christ In God OUR PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Thou that hast given so much to me Last Line: Thy praise. Variant Title(s): Gratefulness;a Heart To Praise Thee Subject(s): Gratitude; Prayer; Religion; Theology PARADISE Poem Text First Line: I bless thee, lord, because I grow Last Line: And such beginnings touch their end. PARADOX First Line: You who admire yourselves because PEACE Poem Text First Line: Sweet peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave Last Line: "is only there." Subject(s): Faith; Jerusalem; Worship; Belief; Creed PERSEVERANCE First Line: My god, the poor expressions of my love Last Line: Thou art my rock, thou art my rest PRAISE (1) Poem Text First Line: To write a verse or two is all the praise Last Line: And much, much more. Subject(s): Prayer PRAISE (2) Poem Text First Line: King of glory, king of peace Last Line: To extoll thee. Variant Title(s): L'envoy PRAISE (3) Poem Text First Line: Lord, I will mean and speak thy praise Last Line: Both all my praise, and more! Subject(s): Worship PRAYER First Line: Prayer, the church's banquet, angel's age, Last Line: The land of spices, something understood. PRAYER (1) Poem Text First Line: Prayer, the church's banquet, angels' age Last Line: The land of spices, something understood. Subject(s): Christianity; Prayer; Religion; Theology PRAYER (2) Poem Text First Line: Of what an easie quick accesse Last Line: And quickly gain, for each inch lost, an ell. PROVIDENCE Poem Text First Line: O sacred providence, who from end to end Last Line: Extolleth many wayes, yet this one more. REDEMPTION Poem Text First Line: Having been tenant long to a rich lord Last Line: Who straight, your suit is granted, said, and died. Subject(s): Christianity; Faith; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Belief; Creed REPENTANCE Poem Text First Line: Lord, I confesse my sinne is great Last Line: Fractures well cur'd make us more strong. Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence RESURRECTION, OR EASTER-DAY First Line: Up and away %thy saviour's gone before Subject(s): Easter; Holidays SAID I NOT SO - THAT I WOULD SIN NO MORE? Poem Text SAID I NOT SO - THAT I WOULD SIN NO MORE? SAID I NOT SO? SELF-CONDEMNATION Poem Text First Line: Thou who condemnest jewish hate Last Line: Without excuse or cloak. Subject(s): Hate; Jews; Judaism SEPULCHRE Poem Text First Line: O blessed bodie! Whither art thou thrown Last Line: Withhold thee. SHALL I BE SILENT? First Line: The shepherds sing; and shall I be silent? Last Line: The pasture is thy word; the streams thy grace, %enriching all the place Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion SIGHS AND GROANS Poem Text First Line: O do not use me Last Line: My god, relieve me! SIN (1) Poem Text First Line: Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round! Last Line: One cunning bosom-sin blows quite away. Variant Title(s): Life's Lessons;bosom Sin Subject(s): Sin SIN (12) Poem Text First Line: Lord, with what glorie wast thou served of old Last Line: The note is sad, yet musick for a king. Variant Title(s): Sion Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology SIN (2) Poem Text First Line: O that I could a sin once see! Last Line: So devils are our sinnes in perspective. Variant Title(s): Sin Subject(s): Sin SIN'S ROUND Poem Text First Line: Sorry I am, my god, sorry I am Last Line: Sorrie I am, my god; sorrie I am. Subject(s): Sin SONNET Poem Text First Line: Sure, lord, there is enough in thee to dry Last Line: The beauty lies in the discoverie. Variant Title(s): Two Sonnets Sent To His Mother, New-year 1609/10;sonnets SUBMISSION Poem Text First Line: But that thou art my wisdome, lord Last Line: Since thou hast both mine eyes. Subject(s): Worship SUNDAY Poem Text First Line: O day most calm, most bright Last Line: Flie hand in hand to heav'n! Subject(s): Sabbath; Worship; Sunday SUNDAYS THE PILLARS ARE THE AGONY [AGONIE] Poem Text First Line: Philosophers have measur'd mountains Last Line: Which my god feels as bloud, but I as wine. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE ALTAR Poem Text First Line: A broken altar, lord, thy servant reares Last Line: And sanctifie this altar to be thine. Subject(s): Altars; Doubt; Immortality; Skepticism THE ANSWER Poem Text First Line: My comforts drop and melt away like snow Last Line: Which they that know the rest, know more then I. THE BAG Poem Text First Line: Away despair! My gracious lord doth heare Last Line: Anything to me. Heark, despair, away! THE BANQUET Poem Text First Line: Welcome sweet and sacred cheer Last Line: Strive in this, and love the strife. THE BRITISH CHURCH Poem Text First Line: I joy, deare mother, when I view Last Line: And none but thee. Subject(s): Anglican Church THE BUNCH OF GRAPES Poem Text First Line: Joy, I did lock thee up: but some bad man Last Line: Ev'n god himself being pressed for my sake. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE CALL Poem Text First Line: Come, my way, my truth, my life Last Line: Such a heart as joys in love. Subject(s): Faith; Love; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE CHURCH FLOORE Poem Text First Line: Mark you the floore? That square & speckled stone Last Line: Could build so strong in a weak heart. Variant Title(s): The Church-floor Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE CHURCH MILITANT Poem Text First Line: Almightie lord, who from thy glorious throne Last Line: Who may with thee compare? THE CHURCH WINDOWS Poem Text First Line: Lord, how can man preach thy eternal word? Last Line: And in the ear, not conscience, ring. Variant Title(s): The Windows Subject(s): Churches; Worship; Cathedrals THE CHURCH-PORCH Poem Text First Line: Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance Last Line: If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains. Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE CHURCH-PORCH: SUPERLIMINARE Poem Text First Line: Thou, whom the former precepts have Last Line: May at his perill further go. THE COLLAR Poem Text First Line: I struck the board and cried, no more Last Line: And I replied, my lord. Subject(s): Anger; Christianity; Despair; Faith; God; Revolutions; Belief; Creed THE CROSSE Poem Text First Line: What is this strange and uncouth thing? Last Line: With but foure words, my words, thy will be done. Variant Title(s): The Cross Subject(s): Cross, The; Repentance; Penitence THE DAWNING Poem Text First Line: Awake sad heart, whom sorrow ever drowns Last Line: Draws tears or bloud, not want an handkerchief. THE DEDICATION, TO THE TEMPLE Poem Text First Line: Lord, my first fruits present themselves to thee Last Line: Theirs, who shall hurt themselves or me, refrain. THE DISCHARGE Poem Text First Line: Busy enquiring heart, what wouldst thou know Last Line: My god hath promis'd; he is just. THE ELIXIR Poem Text First Line: Teach me, my god and king Last Line: Cannot for less be told. Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; God; Prayer THE FAMILIE Poem Text First Line: What doth this noise of thoughts within my heart Last Line: But not to make a constant stay. Variant Title(s): The Family THE FLOWER Poem Text First Line: How fresh, o lord, how sweet and clean Last Line: Forfeit their paradise by their pride. Variant Title(s): Revival Subject(s): Consolation; Flowers THE FOIL Poem Text First Line: If we could see below Last Line: As if grief were not foul, nor vertue winning. THE FORERUNNERS Poem Text First Line: The harbingers are come. See, see their mark Last Line: So all within be livelier than before. Subject(s): Aging THE GLANCE Poem Text First Line: When first thy sweet and gracious eye Last Line: In heav'n above. THE GLIMPSE Poem Text First Line: Whither away delight? Last Line: Who by thy coming may be made a court! THE HOLDFAST Poem Text First Line: I threatened to observe the strict decree Last Line: Christ keepeth now, who cannot fail or fall. THE HOLY COMMUNION Poem Text First Line: Not in rich furniture, or fine array Last Line: And leave th' earth to their food. THE HOLY SCRIPTURES (1) Poem Text First Line: Oh book! Infinite sweetness! Let my heart Last Line: Subject to ev'ry mounters bended knee. Variant Title(s): The H. Scriptures (i) Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE HOLY SCRIPTURES (2) Poem Text First Line: Oh that I knew how all thy lights combine Last Line: This book of starres lights to eternall blisse. Variant Title(s): The H.scriptures (ii) THE INVITATION Poem Text First Line: Come ye hither all, whose taste Last Line: Where is all, there all should be. Subject(s): Bible; Consolation; Religion; Theology THE JEWS Poem Text First Line: Poor nation, whose sweet sap and juice Last Line: That your sweet sap might come again! Subject(s): Jews; Judaism THE METHOD Poem Text First Line: Poor heart, lament Last Line: Glad heart, rejoyce. THE ODOR Poem Text First Line: How sweetly doth my master sound! My master! Last Line: Should all my life employ, and busie me. THE PEARL Poem Text First Line: I know the ways of learning; both the head Last Line: To climb to thee. Variant Title(s): The Pearl. Matth. 13. 45 Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE PILGRIMAGE Poem Text First Line: I travelled on, seeing the hill, where lay Last Line: And but a chair. THE POSIE Poem Text First Line: Let wits contest Last Line: Of all gods mercies, is my posie still. Variant Title(s): The Posy THE PRIESTHOOD Poem Text First Line: Blest order, which in power doth so excell Last Line: What pride by opposition. Subject(s): Clergy; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE PULLEY Poem Text First Line: When god at first made man Last Line: May toss him to my breast. Variant Title(s): The Gifts Of God;rest Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Mankind; Melancholy; Redemption; Religion; Human Race; Dejection; Theology THE QUIDDITY Poem Text First Line: My god, a verse is not a crown Last Line: I am with thee, and most take all. Variant Title(s): The Quiddittie THE QUIP Poem Text First Line: The merry world did on a day Last Line: And then they have their answer home. THE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Press me not to take more pleasure Last Line: For my answer is a rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE SACRIFICE Poem Text First Line: Oh all ye, who passe by, whose eyes and minde Last Line: Never was grief like mine? THE SEARCH Poem Text First Line: Whither, o, whither art thou fled Last Line: Making two one. THE SECOND THANKSGIVING Poem Text First Line: I have considered it, and finde / there is no dealing with thy mighty passion Last Line: The man who once against thee fought. Variant Title(s): The Reprisal Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence THE SINNER Poem Text First Line: Lord, how I am all ague, when I seek Last Line: Remember that thou once didst write in stone. THE SIZE Poem Text First Line: Content thee, greedie heart Last Line: These seas are tears, and heav'n the haven. Subject(s): Greed; Avarice; Cupidity THE SONNE Poem Text First Line: Let foreign nations of their language boast Last Line: We him in glorie call, the sonne of man. Variant Title(s): The Son Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE STARRE Poem Text First Line: Bright spark, shot from a brighter place Last Line: And garland-streams. Variant Title(s): The Star THE STORM Poem Text First Line: If as the windes and waters here below Last Line: They purge the aire without, within the breast. Subject(s): Repentance; Storms; Penitence THE TEMPER (1) Poem Text First Line: How should I praise thee, lord! How should my rhymes Last Line: Make one place everywhere. Subject(s): Worship THE TEMPER (2) Poem Text First Line: It cannot be. Where is that mightie joy Last Line: But keep a standing majestie in me. THE THANKSGIVING Poem Text First Line: Oh king of grief! (a title strange, yet true, / to thee of all kings onely due) Last Line: Alas, my god! I know not what. THE WATERCOURSE Poem Text First Line: Thou who dost dwell and linger here below Last Line: Who gives to man, as he sees fit, [salvation. Damnation.] THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: Love built a stately house; where fortune came Last Line: And built a braver palace then before. Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Jesus Christ; Redemption; World; Belief; Creed TIME Poem Text First Line: Meeting with time, slack thing, said I Last Line: He doth not crave lesse time, but more. Subject(s): Time TO ALL ANGELS AND SAINTS Poem Text First Line: Oh glorious spirits, who after all your bands Last Line: If any one our masters hand can show. TO MY SUCCESSOR Poem Text First Line: If thou chance for to find Last Line: And then my labours not lost. TO MY SUCESSOR (ANOTHER VERSION) First Line: If thou dost find a house built to thy mind Last Line: My labour is not lost Variant Title(s): Inscription In The Parsonage, Bemerto TO THE LADY ELIZABETH QUEEN OF BOHEMIA First Line: Bright soul, of whom if any country known Last Line: (and meet their taste) who are thy bitter foes TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD CHANCELLOR (BACON) First Line: My lord, a diamond to me you sent Last Line: But that my ink was factious for this side TRINITIE SUNDAY Poem Text First Line: Lord, who hast formed me out of mud Last Line: That I may runne, rise, rest, with thee. Variant Title(s): Trinity Sunday TRINITY SUNDAY Poem Text First Line: He that is one Last Line: Has all. UNGRATEFULNESS Poem Text First Line: Lord, with what bountie and rare clemencie Last Line: Defrauding thee, who gavest two for one. Subject(s): Ingratitude; Ungratefulness UNKINDNESSE Poem Text First Line: Lord, make me coy and tender to offend Last Line: Yet use not I my foes as I use thee. Variant Title(s): Unkindness VANITY [OR, VANITIE] (1) Poem Text First Line: The fleet astronomer can bore Last Line: To find our death, but missest life at hand. VANITY [OR, VANITIE] (2) Poem Text First Line: Poore silly soul, whose hope and head lies low Last Line: Is but a bubble, and makes thee a boy. VIRTUE [OR, VERTUE] Poem Text First Line: Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright Last Line: Then chiefly lives. Variant Title(s): Memento Mori;sweet Day;virtue [immortal];sweet Life Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Mortality; Soul; Transience; Virtue; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Impermanence WHITSUNDAY Poem Text First Line: Listen sweet dove unto my song Last Line: Unto his ancient and miraculous right. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT MY SHRIVELLED HEART Subject(s): Love Nelson, George Herbert 6 poems available by this author AD ASTRA Poem Text First Line: One soul I loved Last Line: Denied in this! Subject(s): Love ALAN, DIVING Poem Text First Line: Naked, exultant, and glistening in the sun Last Line: Live deathless in the heart of this fair boy! Subject(s): Diving & Divers CITY SCENE: CHICAGO Poem Text First Line: Today in a dull gray afternoon Last Line: Were like a shower of polka dots. Subject(s): Chicago FROM GREEN NOTE BOOK First Line: Typical fuggn spring blurt of poesy Last Line: Frosting, knuckle scabs, iamb %human suffering toiled over in manure GORGEOUS DEATH Poem Text First Line: The path along the river's side Last Line: Was dying in a flash of glory. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall PRECEPT SHUDDERED First Line: The smell of warmth Last Line: When there. %perhaps a shudder Sass, George Herbert 1 poems available by this author BALLAD OF THE WAR First Line: Watchman, what of the night Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History |
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