Poets From Wales

"A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine: Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine."

"Teach me, my God and King, In all things thee to see And what I do in any thing, To do it as for thee.."

"Lines 29-32"

"Lines 17-20"

"The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords If when the soul unto the lines accords."

"Lines 16-18"

"Lines 36-42"

"Lines 18-20"

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"Lines 33-36"

"Lines 22-26"

"Lines 55-60"

"Lines 21-24"

"Lines 139-140"

"Lines 109-110"

"Lines 1-12"

"Lines 13-16"

"Lines 17-18"

"Lines 6-10"

"Lines 25-28"

"Lines 1-14"

"Lines 1-10"

"Lines 19-22"

"Lines 12-14"

"Lines 1-16."

"The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence."

"Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music."

"Chase brave employment with a naked sword Throughout the world."

"Lines 379-380"

"Man is God's image; but a poor man is Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard."

"Be useful where thou livest."

"Lines 307-308"

"Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy."

"Lines 241-242"

"Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer."

"Lines 175-177"

"By no means run in debt: take thine own measure. Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty."

"By all means use sometimes to be alone."

"Lines 77-78"

"Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby."

"Lines 25-26"

"Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee."

"Verse 1 Line 5&6"

"A verse may finde him,who a sermon flies And turns delight into a sacrifice"

"It (my book) is a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed between God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus, my Master, in whose service I have now found perfect freedom. (Maycock, A L, Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding. SPCK, London, 1938)"

"My meaning (dear Mother) is in these sonnets, to declare my resolution to be, that my poor abilities in poetry, shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory."

"Do well and right, and let the world sink."

"Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?"

"Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him."

"Bibles laid open, millions of surprises."