description: Subtitle: For the First Time Fully Collected and Collated With the Original and Early Editions and Mss. and Much Enlarged ... General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Original Publisher: Printed for private circulation Subjects: Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / Anthologies Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: I. THE HOLY COMMUNION. O Gratious Lord, how shall I know Whether in these gifts Thou bee so As Thou art everywhere 1 Or rather so, as Thou alone Tak'st all ye Lodging, leaving none 5 For Thy poore creature there. First I am sure, whether hread stay, Or whether Bread doe fly away, Concerneth Bread, not mee; But y' both Thou and all Thy traine 10 Bee there, to Thy truth and my gaino Coucerneth mec and Thee. And if in comming to Thy foes, Thou dost come first to them, y' showes The hast of Thy good will; 15 Or if that Thou two stations makest, In Bread and mee, the way Thou takest Is more, but for mee still. Then of this also I am sure, That Thou didst all these pains endure 20 T' abolish Sinn, not Wheat; Creatures are good, and have their place; Sinn onely, wch did all deface, Thou drivest from his seat. I could beleeve an Impanation 25 At the rate of an Incarnation, If Thou hadst dyde for Bread; But that wch made my soule to dye, My flesh and fleshy villany, That allso made Thee dead. 30 That flesh is there mine eyes deny: And what shold flesh but flesh discry -- The noblest sence of five ? If glorious bodies pass the sight, Shall they be food and s...
language: English
title: Complete Works in Verse and Prose
titlecomplete: Complete Works in Verse and Prose
genres: Anthologies, Poetry
ratings_count: 32
publisher: Ams Pr Inc