As in the house I sate, Alone and desolate, No creature but the fire and I, The chimney and the stool, I lift… Up to the wall,

In making bodies Love could not e… Itself, or art, unless it made the… O what a monster had in man been s… Had every thumb or toe a mountain… What worlds must he devour when he…

My Body being Dead, my Limbs unk… Before I skilled [sic] to prize Those living Stars mine Eyes, Before my Tongue or Cheeks were t… Before I knew my Hands were mine,

A life of Sabbaths here beneath! Continual jubilees and joys! The days of Heaven, while we brea… On Earth! where Sin all Bliss de… This is a triumph of delights

From A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God O Lord, the children of my people are Thy peculiar treasures, So much my treasure that all other wealth is without them...

……. An unperceived donor gave all plea… There nothing was but I, and all… In that fair world, One only was… One golden stream, one spring, one…

What powerful Spirit lives within… What active Angel doth inhabit he… What heavenly light inspires my sk… Which doth so like a Deity appear… A living Temple of all ages, I

In Salem dwelt a glorious King, Raised from a shepherd’s lowly sta… That did His praises like an ange… Who did the World create. By many great and bloody wars

Sin! O only fatal woe, That mak’st me sad and mourning go… That all my joys dost spoil, His Kingdom and my Soul defile!

A learned and a happy ignorance Divided me From all the vanity, From all the sloth, care, pain, an… The madness and the misery

For giving me desire, An eager thirst, a burning ardent… A virgin infant flame, A love with which into the world… An inward hidden heavenly love,

News from a foreign country came, As if my treasures and my joys lay… So much it did my heart inflame, ’Twas wont to call my soul into mi… Which thither went to meet

O Nectar! O delicious stream! O ravishing and only pleasure! Wh… Shall such another theme Inspire my tongue with joys or ple… Abridgement of delights!

Sure Man was born to meditate on… And to contemplate the eternal spr… Of God and Nature, glory, bliss,… That life and love might be his H… And therefore speechless made at f…

My contemplation dazzles in the E… Of all I comprehend, And soars above all heights, Diving into the depths of all deli… Can He become the End,