Living

Zelus in Deum: To my Father, Mr. Henry Peacham, of Leverton in Holland, in the Countie of

by Henry Peacham 1576?–1643?

From Minerva Britanna (1612)

Living

WITH Breast enflam'd, and longing heartes desire,
Thus winged Zeale, to heauen-ward castes her eie:
And loathing what the world doth most admire,
Vpborne by Faith, ascendes aboue the skie:
Whereby Oh God, thy misteries we learne,
And all beyond, our reasons sight discerne.

And as the Hart embos't, doth long to tast
The pearly-trickling streame, or Christall fount,
Even so the soule, by Sinne pursu'de and chas'd,
Thee, thee, (oh Lord) desires, who dost surmount
All treasures, pleasures, which we here possesse,
The summe and substance, of our happines.

MLA

Peacham, Henry. “Zelus in Deum: To my Father, Mr. Henry Peacham, of Leverton in Holland, in the Countie of.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/peacham/167/.

Chicago

Peacham, Henry. “Zelus in Deum: To my Father, Mr. Henry Peacham, of Leverton in Holland, in the Countie of.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/peacham/167/.

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