 | Sir Henry Craik - 1920 - Počet stránok 620
...verses arranged in the shape of wings or altars, or in mechanical ingenuity like the following — What open force or hidden CHARM Can blast my fruit or bring me HARM While the enclosure is Thine ARM ? No trace of such misapplied cleverness is to be found in Herbert's prose ;... | |
 | 1923 - Počet stránok 1028
...a poem entitled "Paradise" Herbert shows a similar ingenuity in the endings of each verse: 1 bless Thee, Lord, because I Grow Among Thy trees, which...row To Thee both fruit and order ow. What open force of hidden Charm Can blast my fruit or bring me harm While the enclosure is Thine arm.' Inclose me still... | |
 | Joan Bennett - Počet stránok 168
...instance, cutting off the initial letter of the rhyme word represents God pruning his tree: I blesse mee, Lord, because I GROW Among thy trees, which in a ROW To thee both fruit and order ow, and so on for five stanzas. Such playful effects as these, though exceptional in Herbert's work, indicate... | |
 | George Herbert - 1981 - Počet stránok 382
...are best; They purge the air without, within the breast. PARADISE384 I bless thee, Lord, because ! GROW Among thy trees, which in a ROW To thee both fruit and order O W. What open force, or hidden CHARM Can blast my fruit, or bring me HARM, While the enclosure is... | |
 | Elizabeth D. Harvey, Katharine Eisaman Maus - 1990 - Počet stránok 380
...terms. Although the speaker begins by praising a God who prunes in order to produce fruit — "I blesse thee, Lord, because I GROW / Among thy trees, which in a ROW / To thee both fruit and order ow" — the body of the poem emphasizes excision rather than expansion: Inclose me still for fear I START.... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - Počet stránok 280
...one of aphaeresis or ahlatin, save that a phoneme, rather than a syllable, is removed.) Thus: I bless thee, Lord, because I GROW Among thy trees, which in a ROW To these both fruit and order ow. It is as if each rhyming move revealed something crucial and implicit... | |
 | Michael C. Schoenfeldt - 1991 - Počet stránok 364
...cutting action. The speaker begins by praising a God who prunes in order to produce fruit—"I blesse thee, Lord, because I GROW / Among thy trees, which in a ROW / To thee both fruit and order ow." Probably taking the cue from Old Testament injunctions about circumcision, which promise fruitfulness... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - Počet stránok 336
...of Songs (and like Michelangelo's Eve within God's embrace) Herbert's Paradise is a Garden enclosed: What open force, or hidden CHARM Can blast my fruit, or bring me HARM, While the indosure is thine ARM? That is almost the argument of Milton's Eve (9.337-41), had she remembered the... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - Počet stránok 260
...seriously clever "Paradise" uses aaa tercets, subtracting from the rhyme one letter each line: I bless thee, Lord, because I GROW Among thy trees, which in a ROW To thee both fruit and order ow. The rhyming that I personally find most fascinating, however, occurs in intricate patterns. This has... | |
 | Richard Rambuss - 1998 - Počet stránok 212
...enclosure, this time representing himself as a tree nurtured and protected in God's private garden: "What open force, or hidden CHARM / Can blast my fruit,...bring me HARM, / While the inclosure is thine ARM?" (lines 4-6). To be bounded, boxed in, is for Herbert to feel more securely, more intimately possessable... | |
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I BLESS thee, Lord, because I GROW Among thy trees, which in a ROW To thee both fruit and order ow. 
