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The poetical works of Robert Herrick

Edited by F. W. Moorman

Herrick, Robert (1591-1674)

HESPERIDES:

HIS NOBLE NUMBERS:

His Confession.

His Prayer for Absolution.

Gods Anger without Affection.

God not to be comprehended.

Gods part.

Affliction.

Three fatall Sisters.

Silence.

Mirth.

Loading and unloading.

Gods Mercy.

Prayers must have Poise.

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

Upon God.

Calling, and correcting.

No escaping the scourging.

The Rod.

God has a twofold part.

God is One.

Persecutions profitable.

His Ejaculation to God.

Gods gifts not soone granted.

Persecutions purifie.

Pardon.

An Ode of the Birth of our Saviour.

His Letanie, to the Holy Spirit.

Thanksgiving.

Cock-crow.

All things run well for the Righteous.

Paine ends in Pleasure.

To God.

A Thanksgiving to God, for his House.

To God.

Another, to God.

None truly happy here.

To his ever-loving God.

Another.

To Death.

Neutrality loathsome.

Welcome what comes.

To his angrie God.

Patience, or Comforts in Crosses

Eternitie.

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

The New-yeeres Gift.

To God.

God, and the King.

Gods mirth, Mans mourning.

Honours are hindrances.

The Parasceve, or Preparation.

To God.

A will to be working.

To his sweet Saviour.

The Dirge of Jephthahs Daughter:

To God, on his sicknesse.

Sins loath'd, and yet lov'd.

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 God, his good will.

On Heaven.

The Summe, and the Satisfaction.

Good men afflicted most.

Good Christians

The Will the cause of Woe.

Great grief, great glory.

Hell.

The Bell-man.

The goodnesse of his God.

The Widdowes teares:

To God, in time of plundering.

To his Saviour.

Doomes-Day.

The Poores Portion.

The white Island: or place of the Blest.

Sin severely punisht.

Comforts in contentions.

Heaven.

God.

His Power.

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

This, and the next World.

Ease.

Beginnings and Endings.

A Position in the Hebrew Divinity.

Penitence.

Gods Presence.

The Resurrection possible, and probable.

Christs suffering.

Sinners.

Temptations.

Pittie, and punishment.

Gods price, and mans price.

No time in Eternitie.

His Meditation upon Death.

Cloaths for Continuance.

God sparing in scourging.

Confession.

Gods Descent.

No coming to God without Christ.

Gods time must end our trouble.

Baptisme.

Gold and Frankincense.

To God.

The chewing the Cud.

Christs twofold coming.

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]

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The white Island: or place of the Blest.

In this world (the Isle of Dreames)
While we sit by sorrowes streames,
Teares and terrors are our theames
Reciting:

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But when once from hence we flie,
More and more approaching nigh
Unto young Eternitie
Uniting:

In that whiter Island, where
Things are evermore sincere;
Candor here, and lustre there
Delighting:

There no monstrous fancies shall
Out of hell an horrour call,
To create (or cause at all)
Affrighting.

There in calm and cooling sleep
We our eyes shall never steep;
But eternall watch shall keep,
Attending

Pleasures, such as shall pursue
Me immortaliz'd, and you;
And fresh joyes, as never too
Have ending.