Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Dedication
- General Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Poems from the Dobell Folio
- Poems of Felicity
- Dedication
- The Author to the Critical Peruser
- The Publisher to the Reader
- The Salutation
- Wonder
- Eden
- Innocence
- An Infant-Ey
- The Return
- The Præparative
- The Instruction
- The Vision
- The Rapture
- News
- Felicity
- Adam's Fall
- The World
- The Apostacy (‘Blisse’, stanzas 5 & 6)
- Solitude
- Poverty
- Dissatisfaction
- The Bible
- Christendom
- On Christmas-Day
- Bells. I
- Bells. II
- Churches. I
- Churches. II
- Misapprehension
- The Improvment
- The Odour
- Admiration
- The Approach
- Nature
- Eas
- Dumness
- My Spirit
- Silence
- Right Apprehension
- Right Apprehension. II (‘The Apprehension’)
- Fulness
- Speed
- The Choice (‘The Designe’)
- The Person
- The Image
- The Estate
- The Evidence
- The Enquiry
- Shadows in the Water
- On Leaping over the Moon
- ‘To the same purpos’
- Sight
- Walking
- The Dialogue
- Dreams
- The Inference. I
- The Inference. II
- The City
- Insatiableness. I
- Insatiableness. II
- Consummation
- Hosanna
- The Review. I
- The Review. II
- The Ceremonial Law
- Poems from the Early Notebook
- Textual Emendations and Notes
- Manuscript Foliation of Poems
- Glossary
- Index of Titles and First Lines
The Dialogue
from Poems of Felicity
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
- Dedication
- The Author to the Critical Peruser
- The Publisher to the Reader
- The Salutation
- Wonder
- Eden
- Innocence
- An Infant-Ey
- The Return
- The Præparative
- The Instruction
- The Vision
- The Rapture
- News
- Felicity
- Adam's Fall
- The World
- The Apostacy (‘Blisse’, stanzas 5 & 6)
- Solitude
- Poverty
- Dissatisfaction
- The Bible
- Christendom
- On Christmas-Day
- Bells. I
- Bells. II
- Churches. I
- Churches. II
- Misapprehension
- The Improvment
- The Odour
- Admiration
- The Approach
- Nature
- Eas
- Dumness
- My Spirit
- Silence
- Right Apprehension
- Right Apprehension. II (‘The Apprehension’)
- Fulness
- Speed
- The Choice (‘The Designe’)
- The Person
- The Image
- The Estate
- The Evidence
- The Enquiry
- Shadows in the Water
- On Leaping over the Moon
- ‘To the same purpos’
- Sight
- Walking
- The Dialogue
- Dreams
- The Inference. I
- The Inference. II
- The City
- Insatiableness. I
- Insatiableness. II
- Consummation
- Hosanna
- The Review. I
- The Review. II
- The Ceremonial Law
- Poems from the Early Notebook
- Textual Emendations and Notes
- Manuscript Foliation of Poems
- Glossary
- Index of Titles and First Lines
Summary
Q.Why dost thou tell me that the fields are mine?
A.Becaus for thee the fields so richly shine.
Q.Am I the Heir of the Works of Men?
A.For thee they dress, for thee manure them.
Q.Did I my self by them intended see,
That I the Heir of their Works should be,
It well would pleas; But they themselvs intend:
I therfore am not of their Works the End.
A.The reall Benefit of all their Works,
Wherin such mighty Joy and Beauty lurks,
Derives its self to thee; to thee doth com,
As do the Labors of the Shining Sun;
Which doth not think on thee at all, my Friend,
Yet all his Beams of Light on thee do tend:
For thee they shine and do themselvs display;
For thee they do both make and gild the Day;
For thee doth rise that glorious Orb of Light;
For thee it sets, and so givs way for Night;
That glorious Bridegroom daily shews his face,
Adorns the World, and swiftly runs his Race,
Disperseth Clouds, and raiseth Vapors too,
Exciteth Winds, distills the Rain and Dew,
Concocteth Mines, and makes the liquid Seas
Contribute Moisture to the neighb'ring Leas,
Doth quicken Beasts, revive thy vital Powers,
Thrusts forth the Grass, and beautifies thy Flowers,
By tacit Causes animats the Trees,
As they do Thee so he doth cherish Bees,
Digesteth Mettals, raiseth Fruit and Corn,
Makes Rivers flow, and Mountains doth adorn:
All these it doth, not by its own Design,
But by thy God's, which is far more divine;
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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. 178 - 179Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014