God Not To Be Comprehended.

'Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend
Him, as He is, is labour without end.

Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is known for his book of poems, "Hesperides," which includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." His works are noted for their clarity, simplicity, and musical quality. Herrick was also a vicar of Dean Prior in Devon, despite being ejected during the English Civil War and later reinstated.

Robert Herrick

English

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What God Is.

God is above the sphere of our esteem,
And is the best known, not defining Him.

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God.

In God there's nothing, but 'tis known to be
Even God Himself, in perfect entity.

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God.

God is more here than in another place,
Not by His essence, but commerce of grace.

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To Find God.

Weigh me the fire; or canst thou find
A way to measure out the wind;
Distinguish all those floods that are
Mix'd in that watery theatre;
And taste thou them as saltless there
As in their channel first they were.
Tell me the people that do keep
Within the kingdoms of the deep;
Or fetch me back that cloud again
Beshiver'd into seeds of rain;
Tell me the motes, dust, sands, and spears
Of corn, when summer shakes his ears;
Show me that world of stars, and whence
They noiseless spill their influence:
This if thou canst, then show me Him
That rides the glorious cherubim.

Robert Herrick

Upon God.

God is all fore-part; for, we never see
Any part backward in the Deity.

Robert Herrick

Another Of God.

God's said to leave this place, and for to come
Nearer to that place than to other some,
Of local motion, in no least respect,
But only by impression of effect.

Robert Herrick