God poems
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Good Friday
© Arthur James Marshall Smith
This day upon the bitter treeDied one who had he willedCould have dried up the wide sea And the wind stilled,
Psalm 95:1-3; 6-8
© The Bible
O come let us worship and bow down,
Let us kneel before the Lord our maker
Astrophel and Stella: 28
© Sir Philip Sidney
You that with allegories curious frame,Of others children changelings vse to make,With me those paines for Gods sake do not takeI list not dig so deepe for brasen fame
Astrophel and Stella: 13
© Sir Philip Sidney
Phœbus was Iudge betweene Ioue, Mars, and Loue,Of those three gods, whose armes the fairest were:Ioues golden shield did Eagle sables beare,Whose talents held young Ganymed aboue:But in Vert field Mars bare a golden speare,Which through a bleeding heart his poynt did shoue:Each had his creast, Mars caried Venus gloue,Ioue on his helm the thunders-bolt did reare,Cupid then smiles, for on his crest there liesStellas faire haire, her face he makes his shield,Where roses gueuls are borne in silver field
Shakespeare's Sonnets: O, for my sake do you with fortune chide
© William Shakespeare
O, for my sake do you with fortune chide,The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,That did not better for my life provideThan public means which public manners breeds
Shakespeare's Sonnets: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
© William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
A New Profession
© Seaman Owen
My hopeless boy! when I compare (Claiming a father's right to do so)Your hollow brain, your vacuous air,With all the time, and wealth and care Lavished upon your mental trousseau;
