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The English Works of George Herbert (3); Newly Arranged and Annotated and Considered in Relation to His Life
The English Works of George Herbert Newly Arranged and Annotated and Considered in Relation to His Life - 3 Author:George Herbert Palmer Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and company Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR... more » reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: My words take fire from my inflamed thoughts, Which spit it forth like the Sicilian hill. They vent the wares and passe them with their faults, And by their breathing ventilate the ill. 10 But words suffice not where are lewd intentions; My hands do joyn to finish the inventions. My hands do joyn to finish the inventions. And so my sinnes ascend three stories high, As Babel grew before there were dissentions. 15 Yet ill deeds loyter not, for they supplie New thoughts of sinning. Wherefore, to my shame, Some I am, my God, sorrie I am. Introductory: Dualism is deep in Herbert. His universe presents itself in antithetic pairs. Man and God, nature and spirit, pleasure and duty, death and life, -- to these irreconcilable opposites his thought continually recurs. Between them he recognizes no inner kinship, as do Vaughan, Crashaw, and the Mystics. For him approach to the one is ever denial of the other. This pessimistic little poem, with its two stanzas and contrasted endings, is an extreme exhibit of his temper. Date: Not found in W. Metre: A special adaptation of the metre of The Church- Porch, II, 15, and Sinnes Round, III, 143. Subject: What befits affliction is not complaint, but repentance. Notes: 6. Water pipes are mentioned also in Whitsunday, n, 159,1. 17. THE WATER-COURSE Thou who dost dwell and linger here below, Since the condition of this world is f...« less