Book: Holy Sonnets

• Holy Sonnet XI: Spit In My Face You Jews, And Pierce My Side

  Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side,
  Buffet, and scoff, scourge, and crucify me,

  14 lines, 4 comments
• Holy Sonnet XII: Why Are We By All Creatures Waited On?

  Why are we by all creatures waited on?
  Why do the prodigal elements supply

  14 lines
• Holy Sonnet VIII: If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified

  If faithful souls be alike glorified
  As angels, then my fathers soul doth see,

  14 lines
• Holy Sonnet XIII: What If This Present Were The World's Last Night?

  What if this present were the world's last night?
  Mark in my heart, O soul, where thou dost dwell,

  14 lines
• Holy Sonnet V: I Am A Little World Made Cunningly

  I am a little world made cunningly
  Of elements, and an angelic sprite;

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Holy Sonnet XVIII: Show me, dear Christ, thy Spouse, so bright and clear

  Show me, dear Christ, thy Spouse, so bright and clear.
  What! is it She, which on the other shore

  14 lines, 3 comments
• Holy Sonnet III: O Might Those Sighs And Tears Return Again

  O might those sighs and tears return again
  Into my breast and eyes, which I have spent,

  14 lines
• Holy Sonnet XIX: Oh, To Vex Me, Contraries Meet In One

  Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one:
  Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot

  14 lines
• Holy Sonnet VII: At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners

  At the round earth's imagined corners blow
  Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise

  14 lines
• Holy Sonnet II: As Due By Many Titles I Resign

  As due by many titles I resign
  My self to Thee, O God; first I was made

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Holy Sonnet IX: If Poisonous Minerals, And If That Tree

  If poisonous minerals, and if that tree
  Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us,

  14 lines, 2 comments

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