Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Dedication
- General Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Poems from the Dobell Folio
- Poems of Felicity
- The Ceremonial Law
- Poems from the Early Notebook
- On the Bible
- ‘Rise noble Soule and come away’
- Epitaphium. Annæ Cholmeley sacrum
- Job. Cap. 19. v. 25.26.27. Memento mori
- In Obitum viri optimi J: C. Eirenarchæ
- Textual Emendations and Notes
- Manuscript Foliation of Poems
- Glossary
- Index of Titles and First Lines
Job. Cap. 19. v. 25.26.27. Memento mori
from Poems from the Early Notebook
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Dedication
- General Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Poems from the Dobell Folio
- Poems of Felicity
- The Ceremonial Law
- Poems from the Early Notebook
- On the Bible
- ‘Rise noble Soule and come away’
- Epitaphium. Annæ Cholmeley sacrum
- Job. Cap. 19. v. 25.26.27. Memento mori
- In Obitum viri optimi J: C. Eirenarchæ
- Textual Emendations and Notes
- Manuscript Foliation of Poems
- Glossary
- Index of Titles and First Lines
Summary
Beneath that Stone, lies buried One,
Confin'd in narrow roome;
Whose vaster Mind, noe Rest could find,
Till laid within this Tombe.
Whil'st upon earth he was alive,
All was but aire and wind;
The World too narrow was to give
Contentment to his Mind.
Not all the Treasures, nor the Pleasures,
Where with the Earth is fill'd;
Can meat afford, fitt for the Board,
where Soules are to bee still'd.
Life is the Shadow of a Dreame,
Which He for sleep did rightly take;
Till Death did Jogge him from the same,
He never truely was awake.
But now mine Eies, (above the skies,)
are open; and I see
Things in the Light, not in the Night,
but cleerly shewne to Mee.
Yea Lord! though here my body lies
confus'd with other Earth;
At thy Command my Crummes shal rise
The same as at my Birth.
T. T.
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- The Works of Thomas Traherne VIPoems from the 'Dobell Folio', Poems of Felicity, The Ceremonial Law, Poems from the 'Early Notebook', pp. 248Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014