31. The Temple by George Herbert

Here was a man who seemed to me to excel all the authors I had read in conveying the very quality of life as we live it from moment to moment, but the wretched fellow, instead of doing it all directly, insisted on mediating it through 
what I still would have called the "Christian mythology."  The upshot of it all could nearly be expressed, "Christians 
are wrong, but all the rest are bores."
-C. S. Lewis

One does not need to buy this book and can read The Temple HERE. 

LOVE (III) by George Herbert Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew back,         Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-ey'd Love, observing me grow slack         From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning         If I lack'd anything. "A guest," I answer'd, "worthy to be here";         Love said, "You shall be he." "I, the unkind, the ungrateful? ah my dear,         I cannot look on thee." Love took my hand and smiling did reply,         "Who made the eyes but I?" "Truth, Lord, but I have marr'd them; let my shame         Go where it doth deserve." "And know you not," says Love, "who bore the blame?"         "My dear, then I will serve." "You must sit down," says Love, "and taste my meat."         So I did sit and eat. Notice the way he wrote this with the BOLD! COLOSSIANS III. 3.OUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD. MY words and thoughts do both express this notion,  That LIFE hath with the sun a double motion.  The first IS straight, and our diurnal friend :  The other HID, and doth obliquely bend.  One life is wrapt IN flesh, and tends to earth ;  The other winds t'wards HIM whose happy birth  Taught me to live here so THAT still one eye  Should aim and shoot at that which IS on high—  Quitting with daily labour all MY pleasure,  To gain at harvest an eternal TREASURE.  (from: http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herbert/colossians.htm) I loved these poems. They are not always the easy to understand, but they are well worth it! Two thumbs UP!