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15 - Prayer (I)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2016

Helen Wilcox
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Bangor University
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Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age,

Gods 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’ Almightie, sinners towre,

Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,

The six-daies world transposing in an houre,

A kinde of tune, which all things heare and fear;

Softnesse, and peace, and joy, and love, and blisse,

Exalted Manna, gladnesse of the best,

Heaven in ordinarie, man well drest,

The milkie way, the bird of Paradise,

Church-bels beyond the starres heard, the souls bloud,

The land of spices; something understood.

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Print publication year: 2016

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  • Prayer (I)
  • George Herbert
  • Edited by Helen Wilcox, Bangor University
  • Book: George Herbert: 100 Poems
  • Online publication: 05 May 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316584910.016
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  • Prayer (I)
  • George Herbert
  • Edited by Helen Wilcox, Bangor University
  • Book: George Herbert: 100 Poems
  • Online publication: 05 May 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316584910.016
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  • Prayer (I)
  • George Herbert
  • Edited by Helen Wilcox, Bangor University
  • Book: George Herbert: 100 Poems
  • Online publication: 05 May 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316584910.016
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