Lord, with what care hast Thou be… Parents first season us; then scho… Deliver us to laws; –they send us… To rules of reason, holy messenger… Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow doggi…

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…

If as the winds and waters here be… Do fly and flow, My sighs and tears as busy were ab… Sure they would move And much affect thee, as tempestuo…

The fleet astronomer can bore And thread the spheres with his qu… He views theirs stations, walks fr… Surveys, as if he had designed To make a purchase there: he sees…

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…

To write a verse or two is all the… That I can raise: Mend my estate in any ways, Thou shalt have more. I go to Church; help me to wings,…

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…

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:

If as a flower doth spread and die… Thou wouldst extend me to some goo… Before I were by frost’s extremit… Nipt in the bud; The sweetness and the praise were…

Lord, I confess my sin is great; Great is my sin. Oh! gently trea… With thy quick flow’r, thy momenta… Whose life still pressing Is one undressing,

Welcome dear feast of Lent: who… He loves not Temperance, or Autho… But is compos’d of passion. The Scriptures bid us fast; the C… Give to thy Mother, what thou wou…

LORD, Thou art mine, and I am T… If mine I am; and Thine much more Then I or ought or can be mine. Yet to be Thine doth me restore, So that again I now am mine,

How soon doth man decay! When clothes are taken from a ches… To swaddle infants, whose young br… Scarce knows the way; Those clouts are little winding-sh…

O Sure Lord, there is enough in the… Oceans of Ink ; for, as the Delug… Cover the Earth, so doth thy Maje… Each Cloud distills thy praise, a…

LOVE bade me welcome; yet my sou…    Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me…    From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questio…