• Sonnet Xxxiii.
    full many a glorious morning have I seen
    Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,
    Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
    Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;
    Anon permit the basest clouds to ride,
    With ugly rack on his celestial face,
    And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
    Stealing unseen to...

  • Hymn and Prayer for the Use of Believers

    LORD! when those glorious lights I see
      With which thou hast adorned the skies,
    Observing how they movèd be,
      And how their splendor fills mine eyes,
    Methinks it is too large a grace,
      But that thy love ordained it so,—
    That creatures in so high a place
      Should servants be to man below...