<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396294" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Affliction (IV)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Broken in pieces all asunder, <br>Lord, hunt me not, <br>A thing forgot, <br>Once a poor creature, now a wonder, <br>A wonder tortur'd in the space<br>Betwixt this world and that of grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My thoughts are all a case of knives, <br>Wounding my heart<br>With scatter'd smart, <br>As wat'ring pots give flowers their lives.<br>Nothing their fury can control, <br>While they do wound and prick my soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All my attendants are at strife, <br>Quitting their place<br>Unto my face: <br>Nothing performs the task of life: <br>The elements are let loose to fight, <br>And while I live, try out their right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh help, my God! let not their plot<br>Kill them and me, <br>And also thee, <br>Who art my life: dissolve the knot, <br>As the sun scatters by his light<br>All the rebellions of the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then shall those powers, which work for grief, <br>Enter thy pay, <br>And day by day<br>Labour thy praise, and my relief; <br>With care and courage building me, <br>Till I reach heav'n, and much more, thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Herbert">George Herbert</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396294" data-title="Affliction (IV) de George Herbert" data-description="Broken in pieces all asunder, Lord, hunt me not, A thing forgot, Once a poor creature, now a wonder, A wonder tortur'd in the space Betwixt this world and that of grace. My thoughts are all a case of knives, Wounding my heart With scatter'd ..."></div> </div> </div>

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