Tag: 18th Century
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‘Essay on Man’ (extract from Epistle 2) by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan
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‘Jehovah Our Righteousness’ by William Cowper (1731-1800)
My God, how perfect are Thy ways! But mine polluted are …
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‘The Sick Rose’ by William Blake (1757-1827)
O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. Considering the Poem A rose, a worm, a night, a storm, a bed – a life destroyed: with these ideas, William…
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‘The Clod and the Pebble’ by William Blake (1757-1827)
“Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself has any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.” 4 So sung a little Clod of Clay Trodden with the cattle’s feet, But a Pebble of the brook Warbled out these metres meet: 8 “Love seeketh only self to…
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‘38 Meditation. 1 John 2:1 – An Advocate with the Father’ by Edward Taylor (1645- 1729)
Oh! What a thing is Man? Lord, Who am I? That Thou shouldst give him Law (Oh! golden line) To regulate his Thoughts, Words, Life thereby. And judge him Wilt thereby too in thy time. A Court of Justice thou in heaven holdst To try his Case while he’s here housed on mould. 6 How…
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‘On the Death of Dr Robert Levet’ by Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Condemn’d to hope’s delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. 4 Well tried through many a varying year, See Levet to the grave descend; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of ev’ry friendless name the friend. 8 Yet still he fills affection’s eye, Obscurely…
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