Whitsunday
Whitsunday Listen sweet Dove unto my song,And spread thy golden wings in me; Listen sweet Dove unto my song,And spread thy golden wings in me;Hatching my tender heart so long,Till it get wing, and fly away with thee. Where is that fire which once descendedOn thy Apostles? thou didst thenKeep open house, richly attended,Feasting all […]
The Temper II
The Temper II It cannot be. Where is that mighty joy,Which just now took up all my heart? It cannot be. Where is that mighty joy,Which just now took up all my heart?Lord, if thou must needs use thy dart,Save that, and me; or sin for both destroy. The grosser world stand to thy word […]
The Temper
The Temper How should I praise thee, Lord! how should my rhymesGladly engrave thy love in steel, How should I praise thee, Lord! how should my rhymesGladly engrave thy love in steel,If what my soul doth feel sometimesMy soul might ever feel! Although there were some forty heav’ns, or more,Sometimes I peer above them all;Sometimes […]
The Sinner
The Sinner Lord, how I am all ague, when I seekWhat I have treasur’d in my memory! Lord, how I am all ague, when I seekWhat I have treasur’d in my memory!Since, if my soul make even with the week,Each seventh note by right is due to thee.I find there quarries of pil’d vanities,But shreds […]
The Dawning
The Dawning Awake, sad heart, whom sorrow ever drowns ;Take up thine eyes, which feed on earth ; Awake, sad heart, whom sorrow ever drowns ;Take up thine eyes, which feed on earth ;Unfold thy forehead, gathered into frowns ;Thy Saviour comes, and with Him mirth :Awake, awake,And with a thankful heart His comforts take.But […]
Sin’s Round
Sin’s Round Sorry I am, my God, sorry I am,That my offences course it in a ring. Sorry I am, my God, sorry I am,That my offences course it in a ring.My thoughts are working like a busy flame,Until their cockatrice they hatch and bring:And when they once have perfected their draughts,My words take fire […]
Prayer II
Prayer II Prayer the Church’s banquet, angels’ age,God’s breath in man returning to his birth, Prayer the Church’s banquet, angels’ age,God’s breath in man returning to his birth,The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,The Christian plummet sounding heav’n and earth; Engine against th’ Almighty, sinner’s tower,Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,The six-days’ world transposing in an hour,A […]
Praise
Praise To write a verse or two is all the praiseThat I can raise: To write a verse or two is all the praiseThat I can raise:Mend my estate in any ways,Thou shalt have more. I go to Church; help me to wings, and IWill thither fly;Or, if I mount unto the sky,I will do […]
Antiphon
Antiphon Let all the world in ev’ry corner sing‘My God and King.’ Chorus Let all the world in ev’ry corner sing‘My God and King.’ Verse The heav’ns are not too high,His praise may thither fly:The earth is not too low,His praises there may grow. Chorus Let all the world in ev’ry corner sing,‘My God and […]
A Wreath
A Wreath A wreathed garland of deserved praise,Of praise deserved, unto thee I give, A wreathed garland of deserved praise,Of praise deserved, unto thee I give,I give to thee, who knowest all my wayes,My crooked winding wayes, wherein I live, Wherein I die, not live : for life is straight,Straight as a line, and ever […]