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The poetical works of Robert Herrick

Edited by F. W. Moorman

Herrick, Robert (1591-1674)

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HIS NOBLE NUMBERS:

His Confession.

His Prayer for Absolution.

Mercy and Love.

Gods Anger without Affection.

God not to be comprehended.

Three fatall Sisters.

Loading and unloading.

Prayers must have Poise.

To God: an Anthem, sung in the Chappell at White-Hall, before the King.

Calling, and correcting.

No escaping the scourging.

God has a twofold part.

Persecutions profitable.

Gods Providence.

His Ejaculation to God.

Gods gifts not soone granted.

Persecutions purifie.

An Ode of the Birth of our Saviour.

His Letanie, to the Holy Spirit.

All things run well for the Righteous.

Paine ends in Pleasure.

A Thanksgiving to God, for his House.

Another, to God.

None truly happy here.

To his ever-loving God.

Neutrality loathsome.

Welcome what comes.

To his angrie God.

Patience, or Comforts in Crosses

To his Saviour, a Child; a Present, by a child.

The New-yeeres Gift.

God, and the King.

Gods mirth, Mans mourning.

Honours are hindrances.

The Parasceve, or Preparation.

A will to be working.

Riches and Poverty.

Sobriety in Search.

To his Conscience.

To his Saviour.

To his sweet Saviour.

The Dirge of Jephthahs Daughter:

To God, on his sicknesse.

Sins loath'd, and yet lov'd.

Sin and Strife.

An Ode, or Psalme, to God.

Graces for Children.

God to be first serv'd.

Another Grace for a Child.

A Christmas Caroll, sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall.

The New-yeeres Gift, or Circumcisions Song, sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall.

Another New-yeeres Gift,

To his deere God.

To God, his good will.

The Summe, and the Satisfaction.

Good men afflicted most.

Good Christians

The Will the cause of Woe.

The Recompence.

His wish to God.

Great grief, great glory.

Hell.

The goodnesse of his God.

The Widdowes teares:

To God, in time of plundering.

To his Saviour.

The Poores Portion.

The white Island: or place of the Blest.

Coming to Christ.

Lasciviousnesse.

The Judgment-Day.

Sin severely punisht.

Montes Scripturarum,

Christs sadnesse.

Comforts in contentions.

Christs words on the Crosse, My God, My God.

Confusion of face.

Martha, Martha.

Youth, and Age.

The Virgin Mary.

Another of God.

The Virgin Mary.

Upon Woman and Mary.

North and South.

The Fast, or Lent.

This, and the next World.

Beginnings and Endings.

Temporall goods.

A Position in the Hebrew Divinity.

The Resurrection possible, and probable.

Christs suffering.

Pittie, and punishment.

Gods price, and mans price.

Christs Action.

Predestination.

Christs Incarnation.

To keep a true Lent.

No time in Eternitie.

His Meditation upon Death.

Cloaths for Continuance.

The Judgement day.

Paine and pleasure.

The poore mans part.

The right hand.

The Staffe and Rod.

God sparing in scourging.

No coming to God without Christ.

Another, to God.

The Resurrection.

The number of two.

Hardning of hearts.

Gods time must end our trouble.

Gold and Frankincense.

The chewing the Cud.

Christs twofold coming.

To God, his gift.

Good Friday: Rex Tragicus,

His words to Christ, going to the Crosse.

Another, to his Saviour.

His Saviours words, going to the Crosse.

His Anthem, to Christ on the Crosse.

[This Crosse-Tree here]

To his Saviours Sepulcher: his Devotion.

His Offering, with the rest, at the Sepulcher.

His coming to the Sepulcher.

[Of all the good things whatsoe're we do]

ADDITIONAL POEMS

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Hell.

Hell is the place where whipping-cheer abounds,
But no one Jailor there to wash the wounds.