Seventeenth-century English Poetry, Volume 1Miriam Kosh Starkman Volume 1 includes writings by John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne, and Richard Crashaw. |
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... natural property of the devotional poet in orders , he leans on Herbert , as he leans on the Bible and Nature , for his devotional matter . The situation , how- ever , was not without its value ; if it made Vaughan derivative and ...
... natural property of the devotional poet in orders , he leans on Herbert , as he leans on the Bible and Nature , for his devotional matter . The situation , how- ever , was not without its value ; if it made Vaughan derivative and ...
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... Nature , too , is divine : seed , bud , and flower , the Creatures , even inanimate nature as it wor- ships dumbly , often hermetically , magnetically . For Nature is still allegorical for Vaughan , if not as systematically sacramental ...
... Nature , too , is divine : seed , bud , and flower , the Creatures , even inanimate nature as it wor- ships dumbly , often hermetically , magnetically . For Nature is still allegorical for Vaughan , if not as systematically sacramental ...
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... nature borrowed , Or of it self , like a good huswife , spunne In laws and policie ; what the starres conspire , What willing nature speaks , what forc'd by fire ; Both th ' old discoveries , and the new - found seas , The stock and ...
... nature borrowed , Or of it self , like a good huswife , spunne In laws and policie ; what the starres conspire , What willing nature speaks , what forc'd by fire ; Both th ' old discoveries , and the new - found seas , The stock and ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
George Herbert cont | 4 |
The goodmorrow | 26 |
Copyright | |
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Aire Angels appear beauty better blood body booke breath bright bring Church dead deare death devotional Divine Donne dost doth earth epigrams eyes face fair fall feare finde fire give glory gone grace grief grow hand hast hath head heart heaven Herbert Holy hope houre hymns John keepe King leave lesse light lines live looke Lord lovers metaphysical minde move nature never night once passe peace pleasures poems poet poetry poore Press pure rest rise selfe sense shee shine sigh sight sinne sleepe song soule spirit spring stand starres stay strange Sunne sweet teares tell thee thine things thinke thou art thought true University unto Vaughan verse whole wilt