 | Helen Gardner - 1967 - 340 pages
...path. For my hearts desire Unto thine is bent : I aspire To a full consent. Not a word or look I affect to own, But by book, And thy book alone. Though I...wrath remove, Love will do the deed : For with love Stonie hearts will bleed. Love is swift of foot ; Love's a man of warre, And can shoot, And can hit... | |
 | George Herbert - 1991 - 500 pages
...gentle path. For my heart's desire s Unto thine is bent: I aspire To a full consent. Not a word or look But by book, And thy book alone. Though I fail, I weep: Though I halt in pace, Yet I creep 15 To the throne of grace. Then let wrath remove; Love will do the deed: For with love Stony hearts... | |
 | Marjory E. Lange - 1996 - 302 pages
..."Discipline," are more apt to embrace the speaker's ability to weep and to offer tears with greater alacrity: 'Though I fail, I weep: / Though I halt in pace, / Yet I creep / To the throne of grace" (13-16). have been noted, it is hard to concentrate on either one — unless the details of that one... | |
 | Mark Pryce - 2001 - 164 pages
...path. For my heart's desire Unto thine is bent; I aspire To a full consent. Not a word or look I affect to own, But by book, And thy book alone. Though I...wrath remove, Love will do the deed; For with love Stonie hearts will bleed. 35 Love is swift of foot; Love's a man of warre, And can shoot, And can hit... | |
 | Richard V. Teschner, Melvin Stanley Whitley - 2004 - 300 pages
...affect to own. But by book And thy book alóne. Though I fail, I weep: Though I halt in pace, Yét Í creep, To the throne of grace. Then let wrath remove;...do the deed: For with love Stony hearts will bleed. Throw away thy rod; Though man frailties hath, Thou art God: Throw away thy wrath. Our third poem illustrates... | |
 | Jane Mossendew - 2004 - 208 pages
...for sowing in spring. Autumn sowings tend to give larger stems the following year. Towards meditation Though I fail, I weep: Though I halt in pace, Yet I creep To the throne of grace. (From George Herbert, 'Discipline') If the weather is sufficiently spring-like, make a sowing today... | |
 | Owen F. Cummings - 2004 - 166 pages
..."Discipline," the priestpoet George Herbert (1593-1633), the friend of Deacon Nicholas Ferrar, writes: Though I fail, I weep: Though I halt in pace, Yet I creep to the throne of grace.'0 All serious Christians, and here especially deacons, know in their hearts their failures and... | |
 | James Keating - 2006 - 308 pages
...Books, 1991), 178. 9. Fsther de Waal, Lost inWonder (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2003), 102. I fail, I weep: / Though I halt in pace, /Yet I creep / To the throne of grace."10 Our failures before the love that is God should make us weep, but realizing that we may not... | |
 | George Herbert - 2007 - 47 pages
...For my hearts desire Unto thine is bent: I aspire To a full consent. Not a word or look 10 I affect to own, But by book, And thy book alone. Though I fail, I weep: Though I halt in pace, 15 Yet I creep To the throne of grace. Then let wrath remove; Love will do the deed: For with love... | |
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I aspire To a full consent. Not a word or look I affect to own, But by book, And thy book alone. Though I fail, I weep : Though I halt in pace, Yet I creep To the throne of grace. 
