As he that sees a dark and shady g… Stays not, but looks beyond it on… So when I view my sins, mine eyes… More backward still, and to that w… Which is above the heav’ns, whose…

The merry World did on a day With his train-bands and mates agr… To meet together where I lay, And all in sport to jeer at me. First Beauty crept into a rose,

O day most calm, most bright The fruit of this, the next world’… Th’endorsement of supreme delight, Writ by a friend, and with his blo… The couch of time; care’s balm and…

When my devotions could not pierce Thy silent ears; Then was my heart broken, as was m… My breast was full of fears And disorder:

Lord, Who createdst man in wealth… Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till he became Most poore:

Blest be the God of love, Who gave me eyes, and light, and p… Both to be busy, and to play. But much more blest be God above, Who gave me sight alone,

O my chief good, How shall I measure out thy blood… How shall I count what thee befel… And each grief tell? Shall I thy woes

Oh that I knew how all thy lights… And the configurations of their gl… Seeing not only how each verse dot… But all the constellations of the… This verse marks that, and both do…

Oh Book! infinite sweetness! let… Suck ev’ry letter, and a honey gai… Precious for any grief in any part… To clear the breast, to mollify al… Thou art all health, health thrivi…

Lord, how couldst thou so much app… Thy wrath for sin, as when man’s s… And could see little, to regard hi… And bring by Faith all things to… Hungry I was, and had no meat:

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so br… The bridal of the earth and sky: The dew shall weep thy fall tonigh… For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and b…

Immortal Heat, O let thy greater… Attract the lesser to it: let thos… Which shall consume the world, fir… And kindle in our hearts such true… As may consume our lusts, and make…

Oh who will show me those delights… Echo I Thou Echo, thou art mortal, all m… Echo No Wert thou not born among the trees…

Rise, heart, thy lord is risen. S… Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that t… With him may’st rise: That, as his death calcinèd thee t…

Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life: Such a Way, as gives us breath: Such a Truth, as ends all strife: And such a Life, as killeth death… Come, my Light, my Feast, my Str…