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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SIN (1), by GEORGE HERBERT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round!
Last Line: One cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.
Variant Title(s): Life's Lessons;bosom Sin
Subject(s): Sin
First Line: Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round!
Last Line: One cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.
Variant Title(s): Life's Lessons;bosom Sin
Subject(s): Sin
Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round!
Parents first season us: then schoolmasters
Deliver us to laws; they send us bound
To rules of reason, holy messengers,
Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin,
Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes,
Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in,
Bibles laid open, millions of suprises,
Blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness,
The sound of glory ringing in our ears:
Without, our shame; within, our consciences;
Angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears.
Yet all these fences and their whole array
One cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.
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