On Mr. G. Herbert's Book, Entitled The Temple Of Sacred Poe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHFIIJK| Know you fair on what you look | A |
| Divinest love lies in this book | A |
| Expecting fire from your eyes | B |
| To kindle this his sacrifice | C |
| When your hands untie these strings | D |
| Think you'have an angel by th' wings | D |
| One that gladly will be nigh | E |
| To wait upon each morning sigh | E |
| To flutter in the balmy air | F |
| Of your well perfumed prayer | F |
| These white plumes of his he'll lend you | G |
| Which every day to heaven will send you | G |
| To take acquaintance of the sphere | H |
| And all the smooth fac'd kindred there | F |
| And though Herbert's name do owe | I |
| These devotions fairest know | I |
| That while I lay them on the shrine | J |
| Of your white hand they are mine Credits and CopyrightTogether with the editors the Department ofEnglish University of Toronto and the University of Toronto Press the following individuals share copyright for the work that wentinto this edition Screen Design Electronic Edition Sian Meikle University ofToronto Library Scanning Sharine Leung Centre for Computing in the Humanities | K |
Richard Crashaw
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