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The Lives of John Donne (1); Sir Henry Wolton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson
The Lives of John Donne Sir Henry Wolton Mr Richard Hooker Mr George Herbert and Dr Robert Sanderson - 1 Author:Izaak Walton Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1805 Original Publisher: Clarendon Press Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illust... more »rations 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: It is a truth, that in his penitential years, viewing fome of thofe pieces that had been loofely (God knows too loofely) fcattered in his youth, he wifhed they had been abortive, or fo fiiort-lived that his own eyes had witnefled their funerals : but, though he was no friend to them, he was not fo fallen out with heavenly poetry, as to forfake that; no, not in his declining age ; witnefled then by many divine fon- nets, and other high, holy, and harmonious compofures : yea, even on his former fick-bed he wrote this heavenly hymn, expreffing the great joy that then poflefled his foul, in the aflurance of God's favour to him when he compofed it: AN HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER. VlLT thou forgive that fin where I begun, Which was my fin, though it were done before ? Wilt thou forgive that fin through which I run, And do run ftill, though ftill I do deplore ? When thou haft done, thou haft not done, For I have more. Wilt thou forgive that fin, which 1 have won Others to fin, and made my fin their door ? Wilt thou forgive that fin which I did fhun A year or two, but wallow'd in a fcore ? When thou haft done, thou haft not done, For I have more. I have a fin of fear, that when I've fpun My laft thread, I fhall perifh on the fhore ; But fwear by thyfelf, that at my death thy Son Shall fhine as he fhines now, and heretofore , And having done that, thou haft done, I fear no more. I have the ...« less