The thief, when he doth steal, thi… Yet then the greatest loss he doth… Come, thief, tell me thy gains, bu… When summ’d, what comes it to more… Perhaps, thou’lt say, The halter…

My little bird, how canst thou sit And sing amidst so many thorns? Let me a hold upon thee get, My love with honour thee adorns. Thou art at present little worth,

Who’s this that cometh from the wi… Like smokey pillars thus perfum’d… Leaning upon her dearest in distre… Led into’s bosom by the Comforter… She’s clothed with the sun, crowne…

This glass, when made, was, by the… The sum of sixty minutes to fulfil… Time, more nor less, by it will ou… But just an hour, and then the gla… Man’s life we will compare unto th…

Well, with the day I see the clou… And mix the light with darkness ev… This threatening is, to travellers… Long journeys, slabby rain they’ll… Else, while I gaze, the sun doth…

esides what I said of the Four La… And of the weal and woe that from… An after-word still runneth in my… Which I shall here expose unto th… That may it blow into that very ha…

But be the candles down, and scatt… Some lying here, some there? What… Hold, light the candle there that… It you may find the other candles… Light that, I say, and so take up…

In this see thou thy beauty, hast… Or thy defects, should they be few… Thou may’st, too, here thy spots a… Hast thou but eyes, and what their… But art thou blind? There is no l…

This subject is unto the foulest p… Or fairest handled by the sons of… ‘Twill also show what is upon it w… Be it wisely, or nonsense for want… Each blot and blur it also will ex…

As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den (the gaol), and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept, I dreamed a dream. ...

Eternity is like unto a Ring. Time, like to Measure, doth it se… Measure commences, is a finite thi… The Ring has no beginning, middle…

A comely sight indeed it is to see A world of blossoms on an apple-tr… Yet far more comely would this tre… If all its dainty blooms young app… But how much more might one upon i…

Us godly fear delightful unto thee… That fear that God himself deligh… Bear sway in them that love him? t… Thy godly mind in this request ful… By giving thee a fear that tremble…

Who falls into the fire shall burn… While those remote scorn from it t… Yea, while those in it, cry out,… Some farther off those cries to la… Comparison.

The next word that I would unto t… Is how thou mayst attain without d… Those blessed graces, and that hol… Thou dost with so much godly zeal… Thy love to, and thy longing to en…