Chapter II: Introduction: xiii

THE SALUTATION 1

WONDER 4

EDEN 8

INNOCENCE 11

THE PREPARATIVE 15

THE INSTRUCTION 19

THE VISION 21

THE RAPTURE 24

THE IMPROVEMENT 26

THE APPROACH 31

DUMBNESS 34

SILENCE 38

MY SPIRIT 42

THE APPREHENSION 48

FULLNESS 49

NATURE 51

EASE 55

SPEED 58

THE CHOICE 60

THE PERSON 65

THE ESTATE 69

THE ENQUIRY 73

THE CIRCULATION 76

AMENDMENT 80

THE DEMONSTRATION 83

THE ANTICIPATION 88

THE RECOVERY 94

ANOTHER 98

LOVE 101

THOUGHTS.--I 104

THOUGHTS.--II 109

[THE INFLUX] 112

THOUGHTS.--III 115

DESIRE 119

THOUGHTS.--IV 123

GOODNESS 128

[THE SOUL'S GLORY] 132

[FINITE YET INFINITE] 134

ON NEWS 135

[THE TRIUMPH] 138

[THE ONLY ILL] 140

THE RECOVERY 142

[THE GLORY OF ISRAEL] 143

[ASPIRATION] 148

[SUPPLICATION] 152

AN HYMN UPON ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY 153

POEMS FROM TRAHERNE'S "CHRISTIAN ETHICKS"--

"FOR MAN TO ACT AS IF HIS SOUL DID SEE" 156

"ALL MUSICK, SAWCES, FEASTS, DELIGHTS, AND
PLEASURES" 157

"AS IN A CLOCK 'TIS HINDER'D FORCE DOTH
BRING" 157

"WERE ALL THE WORLD A PARADISE OF EASE" 159

OF MEEKNESS 160

OF CONTENTMENT 166

"AND IF THE GLORY AND ESTEEM I HAVE" 167

APPENDIX--

BLISS 170

[LIFE'S BLESSEDNESS] 171

[THE RESURRECTION] 172

THE WAYS OF WISDOM 174

TRAHERNE'S "SERIOUS AND PATHETICALL CONTEMPLATION
OF THE MERCIES OF GOD" 179

THE WILL OF THOMAS TRAHERNE 185

Note: The poems of which the titles are
enclosed within brackets are without titles in the original
manuscripts. It seemed better to give them names, in order to
facilitate reference to them.