Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The Dedication
- 2 The Altar
- 3 from The Sacrifice
- 4 The Thanksgiving
- 5 The Agonie
- 6 Good Friday
- 7 Redemption
- 8 Sepulchre
- 9 Easter
- 10 Easter wings
- 11 H. Baptisme (II)
- 12 Sinne (I)
- 13 Affliction (I)
- 14 Repentance
- 15 Prayer (I)
- 16 The H. Communion
- 17 Antiphon (I)
- 18 Love I and II
- 19 The Temper (I)
- 20 Jordan (I)
- 21 Employment (I)
- 22 The H. Scriptures I and II
- 23 Whitsunday
- 24 Grace
- 25 Mattens
- 26 Even-song
- 27 Church-monuments
- 28 Church-musick
- 29 The Church-floore
- 30 The Windows
- 31 Trinitie Sunday
- 32 Content
- 33 The Quidditie
- 34 Affliction (III)
- 35 The Starre
- 36 To all Angels and Saints
- 37 Deniall
- 38 Christmas
- 39 Ungratefulnesse
- 40 Sighs and Grones
- 41 The World
- 42 Coloss. 3.3: Our life is hid with Christ in God.
- 43 Vanitie (I)
- 44 Vertue
- 45 The Pearl. Matth. 13.
- 46 Affliction (IV)
- 47 Man
- 48 Unkindnesse
- 49 Life
- 50 Affliction (V)
- 51 Miserie
- 52 Jordan (II)
- 53 Sion
- 54 Home
- 55 The British Church
- 56 The Quip
- 57 The Dawning
- 58 JESU
- 59 Dulnesse
- 60 Love-joy
- 61 from Providence
- 62 Hope
- 63 Sinnes round
- 64 Gratefulnesse
- 65 Peace
- 66 The bunch of grapes
- 67 Love unknown
- 68 Mans medley
- 69 Paradise
- 70 Ephes. 4.30: Grieve not the Holy Spirit, etc.
- 71 The Pilgrimage
- 72 The Holdfast
- 73 Praise (II)
- 74 Longing
- 75 The Collar
- 76 The Call
- 77 Clasping of hands
- 78 The Pulley
- 79 The Priesthood
- 80 Grief
- 81 The Crosse
- 82 The Flower
- 83 The Sonne
- 84 A true Hymne
- 85 Bitter-sweet
- 86 The Glance
- 87 The 23 Psalme
- 88 Aaron
- 89 The Odour, 2. Cor. 2
- 90 The Forerunners
- 91 Discipline
- 92 The Invitation
- 93 The Posie
- 94 A Parodie
- 95 The Elixer
- 96 A Wreath
- 97 Death
- 98 Dooms-day
- 99 Heaven
- 100 Love (III)
- Glossary
- Sources
- Index of titles
- Index of first lines
92 - The Invitation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The Dedication
- 2 The Altar
- 3 from The Sacrifice
- 4 The Thanksgiving
- 5 The Agonie
- 6 Good Friday
- 7 Redemption
- 8 Sepulchre
- 9 Easter
- 10 Easter wings
- 11 H. Baptisme (II)
- 12 Sinne (I)
- 13 Affliction (I)
- 14 Repentance
- 15 Prayer (I)
- 16 The H. Communion
- 17 Antiphon (I)
- 18 Love I and II
- 19 The Temper (I)
- 20 Jordan (I)
- 21 Employment (I)
- 22 The H. Scriptures I and II
- 23 Whitsunday
- 24 Grace
- 25 Mattens
- 26 Even-song
- 27 Church-monuments
- 28 Church-musick
- 29 The Church-floore
- 30 The Windows
- 31 Trinitie Sunday
- 32 Content
- 33 The Quidditie
- 34 Affliction (III)
- 35 The Starre
- 36 To all Angels and Saints
- 37 Deniall
- 38 Christmas
- 39 Ungratefulnesse
- 40 Sighs and Grones
- 41 The World
- 42 Coloss. 3.3: Our life is hid with Christ in God.
- 43 Vanitie (I)
- 44 Vertue
- 45 The Pearl. Matth. 13.
- 46 Affliction (IV)
- 47 Man
- 48 Unkindnesse
- 49 Life
- 50 Affliction (V)
- 51 Miserie
- 52 Jordan (II)
- 53 Sion
- 54 Home
- 55 The British Church
- 56 The Quip
- 57 The Dawning
- 58 JESU
- 59 Dulnesse
- 60 Love-joy
- 61 from Providence
- 62 Hope
- 63 Sinnes round
- 64 Gratefulnesse
- 65 Peace
- 66 The bunch of grapes
- 67 Love unknown
- 68 Mans medley
- 69 Paradise
- 70 Ephes. 4.30: Grieve not the Holy Spirit, etc.
- 71 The Pilgrimage
- 72 The Holdfast
- 73 Praise (II)
- 74 Longing
- 75 The Collar
- 76 The Call
- 77 Clasping of hands
- 78 The Pulley
- 79 The Priesthood
- 80 Grief
- 81 The Crosse
- 82 The Flower
- 83 The Sonne
- 84 A true Hymne
- 85 Bitter-sweet
- 86 The Glance
- 87 The 23 Psalme
- 88 Aaron
- 89 The Odour, 2. Cor. 2
- 90 The Forerunners
- 91 Discipline
- 92 The Invitation
- 93 The Posie
- 94 A Parodie
- 95 The Elixer
- 96 A Wreath
- 97 Death
- 98 Dooms-day
- 99 Heaven
- 100 Love (III)
- Glossary
- Sources
- Index of titles
- Index of first lines
Summary
Come ye hither all, whose taste
Is your waste;
Save your cost, and mend your fare.
God is here prepar'd and drest,
And the feast,
God, in whom all dainties are.
Come ye hither all, whom wine
Doth define,
Naming you not to your good:
Weep what ye have drunk amisse,
And drink this,
Which before ye drink is bloud.
Come ye hither all, whom pain
Doth arraigne,
Bringing all your sinnes to sight:
Taste and fear not: God is here
In this cheer,
And on sinne doth cast the fright.
Come ye hither all, whom joy
Doth destroy,
While ye graze without your bounds:
Here is joy that drowneth quite
Your delight,
As a floud the lower grounds.
Come ye hither all, whose love
Is your dove,
And exalts you to the skie:
Here is love, which having breath
Ev'n in death,
After death can never die.
Lord I have invited all,
And I shall
Still invite, still call to thee:
For it seems but just and right
In my sight,
Where is all, there all should be.
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- George Herbert: 100 Poems , pp. 147 - 148Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016