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Christian : Protestant

17th Century

About George Herbert

Timeline (1593 - 1633)

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Original Language
English

Prayer (I)

Themes

Birds

Birth, Rebirth

Bliss

Heart

Lover and Beloved

Recommended Books

	The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell
	The Essential George Herbert, by George Herbert / Edited by Anthony Hecht
	George Herbert: A Literary Life, by Christina Malcolmson
	George Herbert: The Complete English Poems, by George Herbert / Edited by John Tobin
	George Herbert: The Country Parson and the Temple, by George Herbert / Edited by John Nelson Wall

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Prayer the Church's banquet, Angel's age,
     God's breath in man returning to his birth,
     The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth;

Engine against the' Almighty, sinner's tow'r,
     Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,
     The six-days world-transposing in an hour,
A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear;

Softness, and peace, and joy, and love and bliss,
     Exalted manna, gladness of the best,
     Heaven in ordinary, man well dressed,
The Milky Way, the bird of paradise,

     Church-bells beyond the stears heard, the soul's blood,
     The land of spices; something understood.

-- from George Herbert: The Country Parson and the Temple, by George Herbert / Edited by John Nelson Wall

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