Robert Southwell God Poems

  • 1.
    Retired thoughts enjoy their own delights,
    As beauty doth in self-beholding eye ;
    Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,
    A brief wherein all marvels summed lie,
    ...
  • 2.
    MY hovering thoughts would fly to heaven
    And quiet nestle in the sky,
    Fain would my ship in Virtue's shore
    Without remove at anchor lie.
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  • 4.
    Let folly praise that fancy loves, I praise and love that Child
    Whose heart no thought, whose tongue no word, whose hand no deed defiled.

    I praise Him most, I love Him best, all praise and love is His;
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  • 5.
    Behold the father is his daughter's son,
    The bird that built the nest is hatched therein,
    The old of years an hour hath not outrun,
    Eternal life to live doth now begin,
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  • 6.
    Come to your heaven, you heavenly choirs,
    Earth hath the heaven of your desires;
    Remove your dwelling to your God,
    A stall is now his best abode;
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  • 7.
    The loppèd tree in time may grow again,
    Most naked plants renew both fruit and flower;
    The sorest wight may find release of pain,
    The driest soil suck in some moist'ning shower;
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Total 7 God Poems by Robert Southwell

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