by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
To God
Language: English
Make, make me Thine, my gracious God, Or with Thy staffe, or with Thy rod; And be the blow too what it will. Lord, I will kisse it, though it kill: Beat me, bruise me, rack me, rend me, Yet, in torments, I'le commend Thee: Examine me with fire, and prove me To the full, yet I will love Thee: Nor shalt Thou give so deep a wound, But I as patient will be found.
Confirmed with Hesperides, the poems and other remains of Robert Herrick now first collected, edited by W.Carew Hazlitt, Volume the Second, London: John Russell Smith, 1869, page 376, in the section called "His Noble Numbers: or, his Pious Pieces."
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Authorship:
- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "To God", appears in The Hesperides [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937), "To God", published 1886 [ voice and piano ], London: Metzler [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2013-07-26
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