495. Mattins by George Herbert
b"G Herbert read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------\\n\\nMattins\\nby George Herbert (1593 \\u2013 1633)\\n\\nI cannot ope mine eyes,\\nBut thou art ready there to catch\\nMy morning-soul and sacrifice:\\nThen we must needs for that day make a match.\\n\\nMy God, what is a heart?\\nSilver, or gold, or precious stone,\\nOr star, or rainbow, or a part\\nOf all these things or all of them in one?\\n\\nMy God, what is a heart?\\nThat thou should'st it so eye, and woo,\\nPouring upon it all thy art,\\nAs if that thou hadst nothing else to do?\\n\\nIndeed man's whole estate\\nAmounts (and richly) to serve thee:\\nHe did not heav'n and earth create,\\nYet studies them, not him by whom they be.\\n\\nTeach me thy love to know;\\nThat this new light, which now I see,\\nMay both the work and workman show:\\nThen by a sun-beam I will climb to thee.\\n\\nFirst aired: 1 August 2009\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009"