
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Dedication
- General Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Poems from the Dobell Folio
- The Salutation
- Wonder
- Eden
- Innocence
- The Preparative
- The Instruction
- The Vision
- The Rapture
- The Improvment
- The Approach
- Dumnesse
- Silence
- My Spirit
- The Apprehension (‘Right Apprehension. II’)
- Fullnesse
- Nature
- Ease
- Speed
- The Designe (‘The Choice’)
- The Person
- The Estate
- The Enquirie
- The Circulation
- Amendment
- The Demonstration
- The Anticipation
- The Recovery
- Another
- Love
- Thoughts. I
- Blisse (Stanzas 5 & 6, ‘The Apostacy’)
- Thoughts. II
- ‘Ye hidden Nectars’
- Thoughts. III
- Desire
- ‘In thy Presence’ (Thoughts. IV)
- Goodnesse
- Poems of Felicity
- The Ceremonial Law
- Poems from the Early Notebook
- Textual Emendations and Notes
- Manuscript Foliation of Poems
- Glossary
- Index of Titles and First Lines
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from Poems from the Dobell Folio
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
- The Salutation
- Wonder
- Eden
- Innocence
- The Preparative
- The Instruction
- The Vision
- The Rapture
- The Improvment
- The Approach
- Dumnesse
- Silence
- My Spirit
- The Apprehension (‘Right Apprehension. II’)
- Fullnesse
- Nature
- Ease
- Speed
- The Designe (‘The Choice’)
- The Person
- The Estate
- The Enquirie
- The Circulation
- Amendment
- The Demonstration
- The Anticipation
- The Recovery
- Another
- Love
- Thoughts. I
- Blisse (Stanzas 5 & 6, ‘The Apostacy’)
- Thoughts. II
- ‘Ye hidden Nectars’
- Thoughts. III
- Desire
- ‘In thy Presence’ (Thoughts. IV)
- Goodnesse
- Poems of Felicity
- The Ceremonial Law
- Poems from the Early Notebook
- Textual Emendations and Notes
- Manuscript Foliation of Poems
- Glossary
- Index of Titles and First Lines
Summary
1
The Liquid Pearl in Springs,
The usefull and the Precious Things
Are in a moment Known.
Their very Glory does reveal their Worth,
(And that doth set their Glory forth;)
As soon as I was Born, they all were Shewn.
2
True Living Wealth did flow,
In Chrystall Streams below
My feet, and trilling down
In Pure, Transparent, Soft, Sweet, Melting Pleasures,
Like Precious and Diffusive Treasures,
At once my Body fed, and Soul did Crown.
3
I was as High and Great,
As Kings are in their Seat.
All other Things were mine.
The World my House, the Creatures were my Goods,
Fields, Mountains, Valleys, Woods,
Floods, Cities, Churches, Men for me did shine.
4
Great, Lofty, Endless, Stable,
Various and Innumerable,
Bright usefull fair Divine,
Immovable and Sweet the Treasures were,
The Sacred Objects did appear
Most rich and Beautifull, as well as mine.
5
New all! New Burnisht Joys;
Tho now by other Toys
Ecclypst: New all and mine.
Great Truth so Sacred seemd for this to me,
Becaus the Things which I did see
Were such, my State I knew to be Divine.
6
Nor did the Angels faces,
The Glories, and the Graces,
The Beauty Peace and Joy
Of Heaven it self, more Sweetness yeeld to me.
Till filthy Sin did all destroy,
These were the Offspring of the Deitie.
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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. 35 - 36Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014