...you remember condemning something of mine for being too obtrusively didactic. Listen to Herbert — ' Is it not verse except enchanted groves And sudden...purling streams refresh a lover's loves? Must all be veiled, while he thai reads divines Catching the sense at two removes?' You see, ' except ' was used...

...his duty was to teach Christian truths simply rather than explore his own religious emotions subtly: Who says that fictions only and false hair Become...beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair? . . . I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme Who plainly...

...and heaven move, Let not thy higher Court remove, IS But keep a standing Majesty in me. JORDAN (I)110 Who says that fictions only and false hair Become...their duty Not to a true, but painted chair? Is it no verse, except enchanted groves And sudden arbors shadow coarse-spun lines? 109. race. Raze. 110....

...speaking idiom. In other words, Herbert, like Donne, is a realist in literature. The first Jordan poem (' Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse?') is not only an expression of personal dedication, it is also, as the second poem of the same title is...

...and heaven move, Let not thy higher Court remove, 15 But keep a standing Majesty in me. Jordan (1) Who says that fictions only and false hair Become...they do their duty Not to a true, but painted chair? Shepherds are honest people; let them sing: Riddle who list, for me, and pull for Prime: I envy no...

...ready penned. Copy out only that, and save expense." MePo; NAEL-1; OAEL-1; OBS; OBWVE; PPP; SeCP 44 er. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth. So far as I know, but a tree and 45 Must all be veiled, while he that reads, divines, Catching the sense at two removes? 46 I envy no...

...poetic rhetoric is of no value for praising God: all the poet need 'plainly' say is 'My God, my King'. Who says that fictions only and false hair Become...they do their duty Not to a true but painted chair? Cf. Moore (1989). 151 70. Is this a point where I began to reify? Two poems worth pondering upon in...

...endeavour? We count three hundred, but we miss: 30 There is but one, and that one ever. Jordan (I) Who says that fictions only and false hair Become...stair? May no lines pass, except they do their duty 5 Not to a true, but painted chair? It is no verse, except enchanted groves And sudden arbours shadow...

...Porch," st. 1, The Temp/e(1633). Repr. in The Works of George Herbert, ed. Helen Gardner (1961). 36 Who says that fictions only and false hair Become...they do their duty Not to a true, but painted chair? GEORGE HERBERT, (1593-1633) British poet, clergyman, "lordan (I)", st. 1, The Temp/e(1633). Repr. in...

...dwelt. Again the poet George Herbert provides some basic questions: Jordan (I) Who says that fiction only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth...their duty Not to a true, but painted chair? Is it no verse, except enchanted groves And sudden arbors shadow coarse-spun lines? Must purling streams...