Poetry & Verse
To Heaven
By Ben JonsonSource: Ben Jonson - PoetryDB (Public Domain)193 words
Good and great God, can I not think of thee But it must straight my melancholy be? Is it interpreted in me disease That, laden...
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Good and great God, can I not think of thee But it must straight my melancholy be? Is it interpreted in me disease That, laden with my sins, I seek for ease? Oh be thou witness, that the reins dost know And hearts of all, if I be sad for show, And judge me after; if I dare pretend To ought but grace or aim at other end.…
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