The Complete Poems Of Robert Herrick Volume 2 Primary Source Edition

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... his heart: No man is blest through eVry part. To his ever-loving God. C"AN I not come to Thee, my God, for these So very-many-meeting hindrances, That slack my pace; but yet not make me stay? Who slowly goes, rids' (in the end) his way. Cleere Thou my paths, or shorten Thou my miles, Remove the barrs, or lift me o're the stiles: Since rough the way is, help me when I call, And take me up; or els prevent the fall. I kenn2 my home; and it affords some ease, To see far off the smoaking Villages. 1 =gets rid or clear of his way, i. e. finishes his journey. = = know. Fain would I rest; yet covet not to die, For feare of future-biting penurie: No, no, (my God) Thou know'st my wishes be To leave this life, not loving it, but Thee. Another. "T" HOU bidst me come; I cannot come; for why, Thou dwel'st aloft, and I want wings to flie. To mount my Soule, she must have pineons given; For, 'tis no easie way from Earth to Heaven. To Death. '"THOU bidst me come away, And I'le no longer stay, Then for to shed some teares than For faults of former yeares; And to repent some crimes, Done in the present times: And next, to take a bit Of Bread, and Wine with it: To d'on my robes of love, Fit for the place above; To gird my loynes about With charity throughout; And so to travaile hence With feet of innocence: These done, I'le onely crie God mercy; and so die. Neutrality loathsome. /" OD will have all, or none; serve Him, or fall Down before Baal, Bel, or Belial: Either be hot, or cold: God doth despise, Abhorre, and spew out all Neutralities.3 Welcome what comes. AXTHATEVER comes, let's be content withall: Among God's Blessings, there is no one small. To his angrie God. "THROUGH all the night Thou dost me fright, And hold'st mine...

This first volume of the new edition of Robert Herrick's poetry contains Herrick's only published collection, Hesperides (1648).

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