by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
To God
Language: English
Come to me God ; but do not come To me, as to the gen'rall Doome, In power; or come Thou in that state, When Thou Thy Lawes didst promulgate, When as the [Mountains]1 quak'd for dread, And sullen clouds bound up his head. [No, lay thy stately terrours by, To talke with me familiarly;]2 For if Thy thunder-claps I heare, I shall lesse swoone, then die for feare. Speake thou of love and I'le reply [By way of Epithalamie,]2 Or sing of mercy, and I'le suit To it my Violl and my Lute: Thus let Thy lips but love distill, Then come my God, and hap what will.
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1 Dyson: "mountain"
2 omitted by Dyson.
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Researcher for this page: Harry Joelson
1 Dyson: "mountain"
2 omitted by Dyson.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "To God" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- by George Dyson (1883 - 1964), "Come to me God ; but do not come", from Quo Vadis: a Cycle of Poems, no. 7..
Researcher for this page: Harry Joelson
This text was added to the website: 2011-06-24
Line count: 16
Word count: 108