Vanity

Vanity The fleet astronomer can boreAnd thread the spheres with his quick piercing mind: The fleet astronomer can boreAnd thread the spheres with his quick-piercing mind:He views theirs stations, walks from door to door,Surveys, as if he had designedTo make a purchase there: he sees their dances,And knoweth long before,Both their full-eyed aspects, and secret […]

The Windows

The Windows Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word?He is a brittle crazie glasse: Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word?He is a brittle crazie glasse:Yet in thy temple thou dost him affordThis glorious and transcendent place,To be a window, through thy grace. But when thou dost anneal in glasse thy storie,Making thy […]

The Storm

The Storm If as the winds and waters here belowDo fly and flow, If as the winds and waters here belowDo fly and flow,My sighs and tears as busy were above;Sure they would moveAnd much affect thee, as tempestuous timesAmaze poor mortals, and object their crimes. Stars have their storms, ev’n in a high degree,As […]

Aaron

Aaron Holiness on the head,Light and perfection on the breast, Holiness on the head,Light and perfection on the breast,Harmonious bells below, raising the deadTo led them unto life and rest.Thus are true Aarons dressed. Profaneness in my head,Defects and darkness in my breast,A noise of passions ringing me for deadUnto a place where is no […]