Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The Dedication
- 2 The Altar
- 3 from The Sacrifice
- 4 The Thanksgiving
- 5 The Agonie
- 6 Good Friday
- 7 Redemption
- 8 Sepulchre
- 9 Easter
- 10 Easter wings
- 11 H. Baptisme (II)
- 12 Sinne (I)
- 13 Affliction (I)
- 14 Repentance
- 15 Prayer (I)
- 16 The H. Communion
- 17 Antiphon (I)
- 18 Love I and II
- 19 The Temper (I)
- 20 Jordan (I)
- 21 Employment (I)
- 22 The H. Scriptures I and II
- 23 Whitsunday
- 24 Grace
- 25 Mattens
- 26 Even-song
- 27 Church-monuments
- 28 Church-musick
- 29 The Church-floore
- 30 The Windows
- 31 Trinitie Sunday
- 32 Content
- 33 The Quidditie
- 34 Affliction (III)
- 35 The Starre
- 36 To all Angels and Saints
- 37 Deniall
- 38 Christmas
- 39 Ungratefulnesse
- 40 Sighs and Grones
- 41 The World
- 42 Coloss. 3.3: Our life is hid with Christ in God.
- 43 Vanitie (I)
- 44 Vertue
- 45 The Pearl. Matth. 13.
- 46 Affliction (IV)
- 47 Man
- 48 Unkindnesse
- 49 Life
- 50 Affliction (V)
- 51 Miserie
- 52 Jordan (II)
- 53 Sion
- 54 Home
- 55 The British Church
- 56 The Quip
- 57 The Dawning
- 58 JESU
- 59 Dulnesse
- 60 Love-joy
- 61 from Providence
- 62 Hope
- 63 Sinnes round
- 64 Gratefulnesse
- 65 Peace
- 66 The bunch of grapes
- 67 Love unknown
- 68 Mans medley
- 69 Paradise
- 70 Ephes. 4.30: Grieve not the Holy Spirit, etc.
- 71 The Pilgrimage
- 72 The Holdfast
- 73 Praise (II)
- 74 Longing
- 75 The Collar
- 76 The Call
- 77 Clasping of hands
- 78 The Pulley
- 79 The Priesthood
- 80 Grief
- 81 The Crosse
- 82 The Flower
- 83 The Sonne
- 84 A true Hymne
- 85 Bitter-sweet
- 86 The Glance
- 87 The 23 Psalme
- 88 Aaron
- 89 The Odour, 2. Cor. 2
- 90 The Forerunners
- 91 Discipline
- 92 The Invitation
- 93 The Posie
- 94 A Parodie
- 95 The Elixer
- 96 A Wreath
- 97 Death
- 98 Dooms-day
- 99 Heaven
- 100 Love (III)
- Glossary
- Sources
- Index of titles
- Index of first lines
8 - Sepulchre
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The Dedication
- 2 The Altar
- 3 from The Sacrifice
- 4 The Thanksgiving
- 5 The Agonie
- 6 Good Friday
- 7 Redemption
- 8 Sepulchre
- 9 Easter
- 10 Easter wings
- 11 H. Baptisme (II)
- 12 Sinne (I)
- 13 Affliction (I)
- 14 Repentance
- 15 Prayer (I)
- 16 The H. Communion
- 17 Antiphon (I)
- 18 Love I and II
- 19 The Temper (I)
- 20 Jordan (I)
- 21 Employment (I)
- 22 The H. Scriptures I and II
- 23 Whitsunday
- 24 Grace
- 25 Mattens
- 26 Even-song
- 27 Church-monuments
- 28 Church-musick
- 29 The Church-floore
- 30 The Windows
- 31 Trinitie Sunday
- 32 Content
- 33 The Quidditie
- 34 Affliction (III)
- 35 The Starre
- 36 To all Angels and Saints
- 37 Deniall
- 38 Christmas
- 39 Ungratefulnesse
- 40 Sighs and Grones
- 41 The World
- 42 Coloss. 3.3: Our life is hid with Christ in God.
- 43 Vanitie (I)
- 44 Vertue
- 45 The Pearl. Matth. 13.
- 46 Affliction (IV)
- 47 Man
- 48 Unkindnesse
- 49 Life
- 50 Affliction (V)
- 51 Miserie
- 52 Jordan (II)
- 53 Sion
- 54 Home
- 55 The British Church
- 56 The Quip
- 57 The Dawning
- 58 JESU
- 59 Dulnesse
- 60 Love-joy
- 61 from Providence
- 62 Hope
- 63 Sinnes round
- 64 Gratefulnesse
- 65 Peace
- 66 The bunch of grapes
- 67 Love unknown
- 68 Mans medley
- 69 Paradise
- 70 Ephes. 4.30: Grieve not the Holy Spirit, etc.
- 71 The Pilgrimage
- 72 The Holdfast
- 73 Praise (II)
- 74 Longing
- 75 The Collar
- 76 The Call
- 77 Clasping of hands
- 78 The Pulley
- 79 The Priesthood
- 80 Grief
- 81 The Crosse
- 82 The Flower
- 83 The Sonne
- 84 A true Hymne
- 85 Bitter-sweet
- 86 The Glance
- 87 The 23 Psalme
- 88 Aaron
- 89 The Odour, 2. Cor. 2
- 90 The Forerunners
- 91 Discipline
- 92 The Invitation
- 93 The Posie
- 94 A Parodie
- 95 The Elixer
- 96 A Wreath
- 97 Death
- 98 Dooms-day
- 99 Heaven
- 100 Love (III)
- Glossary
- Sources
- Index of titles
- Index of first lines
Summary
O blessed bodie! Whither art thou thrown?
No lodging for thee, but a cold hard stone?
So many hearts on earth, and yet not one
Receive thee?
Sure there is room within our hearts good store;
For they can lodge transgressions by the score:
Thousands of toyes dwell there, yet out of doore
They leave thee.
But that which shews them large, shews them unfit.
What ever sinne did this pure rock commit,
Which holds thee now? Who hath indited it
Of murder?
Where our hard hearts have took up stones to brain thee,
And missing this, most falsly did arraigne thee;
Onely these stones in quiet entertain thee,
And order.
And as of old, the law by heav'nly art
Was writ in stone; so thou, which also art
The letter of the word, find'st no fit heart
To hold thee.
Yet do we still persist as we began,
And so should perish, but that nothing can,
Though it be cold, hard, foul, from loving man
Withhold thee.
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- George Herbert: 100 Poems , pp. 13Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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