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Слушать(AI)Two Went up into the Temple to Pray
Two went to pray?
O rather say One went to brag, th' other to pray: One stands up close and treads on high, Where th' other dares not send his eye. One nearer to God's altar trod, The other to the altar's God.
Richard Crashaw
Richard Crashaw (c. 1613 – 21 August 1649) was an English poet, teacher, High Church Anglican cleric and Roman Catholic convert, who was among t
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On Mr G Herberts Book Entitled The Temple Sacred Poems
Know you, fair, on what you look Divinest love lies in this book, Expecting fire from your eyes, To kindle this His sacrifice
Musics Duel
Now westward Sol had spent the richest Of noon's high glory, when, hard by the Of Tiber, on the scene of a green plat, Under protection of an oak, there satA sweet lute's master : in whose gentle
Samson to his Delilah
Could not once blinding me, cruel, suffice When first I look'd on thee, I lost mine eyes
Prayer
LO here a little volume, but great Book A nest of new-born sweets; Whose native fires disdaining To ly thus folded, and complaining Of these ignoble sheets, Affect more comly bands (Fair one) from the kind hands And confidently look To find the re...
