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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Dedication
- General Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Poems from the Dobell Folio
- Poems of Felicity
- The Ceremonial Law
- Poems from the Early Notebook
- On the Bible
- ‘Rise noble Soule and come away’
- Epitaphium. Annæ Cholmeley sacrum
- Job. Cap. 19. v. 25.26.27. Memento mori
- In Obitum viri optimi J: C. Eirenarchæ
- Textual Emendations and Notes
- Manuscript Foliation of Poems
- Glossary
- Index of Titles and First Lines
‘Rise noble Soule and come away’
from Poems from the Early Notebook
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Dedication
- General Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Poems from the Dobell Folio
- Poems of Felicity
- The Ceremonial Law
- Poems from the Early Notebook
- On the Bible
- ‘Rise noble Soule and come away’
- Epitaphium. Annæ Cholmeley sacrum
- Job. Cap. 19. v. 25.26.27. Memento mori
- In Obitum viri optimi J: C. Eirenarchæ
- Textual Emendations and Notes
- Manuscript Foliation of Poems
- Glossary
- Index of Titles and First Lines
Summary
1.
Rise noble Soule and come away;
Lett us no longer wast the day:
Come lett us hast to yonder Hill,
where Pleasures fresh are growing still.
The way at first is rough and steep;
And something hard for to ascend:
But on the Toppe do Pleasures keep
And Ease and Joyes doe still attend.
2.
Come lett us goe: and doe not fear
the hardest way, while I am neer.
My heart with thine shall mingled bee;
Thy Sorrowes mine, my Joyes with Thee.
And all our Labours as wee goe
True Love shall sweeten still.
and strew our way with Flowers too,
whilest wee ascend the Hill.
3.
The hill of rest, where Angels live:
where Blisse her Palace hath to give:
where Thousands shall Thee welcom make,
and Joy, that Thou their Joyes do'st take.
O come lett's hast to this sweet place,
I pray thee quickly heal thy mind!
sweet lett us goe with joyfull pace
And leave the baser world behind.
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- The Works of Thomas Traherne VIPoems from the 'Dobell Folio', Poems of Felicity, The Ceremonial Law, Poems from the 'Early Notebook', pp. 246Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014