Delight In God Only Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EDEDDD FGFGDD DHDHDD IFIFDD JFJFDD KLKLDD HMMMDD| I love and have some cause to love the earth | A |
| She is my Maker's creature therefore good | B |
| She is my mother for she gave me birth | A |
| She is my tender nurse she gives me food | C |
| But what's a creature Lord compared with Thee | D |
| Or what's my mother or my nurse to me | D |
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| I love the air her dainty fruits refresh | E |
| My drooping soul and to new sweets invite me | D |
| Her shrill mouth'd choirs sustain me with their flesh | E |
| And with their polyphonian notes delight me | D |
| But what's the air or all the sweets that she | D |
| Can bless my soul withal compared to Thee | D |
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| I love the sea she is my fellow creature | F |
| My careful purveyor she provides me store | G |
| She walls me round she makes my diet greater | F |
| She wafts my treasure from a foreign shore | G |
| But Lord of oceans when compared with Thee | D |
| What is the ocean or her wealth to me | D |
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| To heaven's high city I direct my journey | D |
| Whose spangled suburbs entertain mine eye | H |
| Mine eye by contemplation's great attorney | D |
| Transcends the crystal pavement of the sky | H |
| But what is heaven great God compared to Thee | D |
| Without Thy presence heaven's no heaven to me | D |
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| Without Thy presence earth gives no reflection | I |
| Without Thy presence sea affords no treasure | F |
| Without Thy presence air's a rank infection | I |
| Without Thy presence heaven itself no pleasure | F |
| If not possess'd if not enjoyed in Thee | D |
| What's earth or sea or air or heaven to me | D |
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| The highest honours that the world can boast | J |
| Are subjects far too low for my desire | F |
| Its brightest gleams of glory are at most | J |
| But dying sparkles of Thy living fire | F |
| The brightest flames that earth can kindle be | D |
| But nightly glowworms if compared to Thee | D |
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| Without Thy presence wealth is bags of cares | K |
| Wisdom but folly joy disquiet sadness | L |
| Friendship is treason and delights are snares | K |
| Pleasures but pain and mirth but pleasing madness | L |
| Without Thee Lord things be not what they be | D |
| Nor have their being when compared with Thee | D |
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| In having all things and not Thee what have I | H |
| Not having Thee what have my labours got | M |
| Let me enjoy but Thee what have my labours got | M |
| And having Thee alone what have I not | M |
| I wish nor sea nor land nor would I be | D |
| Possess'd of heaven heaven unpossess'd of Thee | D |
Francis Quarles
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