Poems as Prayer: ‘The H Scriptures II’ (Herbert)

Creative Commons Prayer Podcast

Poem by George Herbert (Public Domain)
Episode by Kyle Oliver for prayr.cc (CC BY 2.0)
Music: “Dragon Country (Apple & Clove)” by Alexander Westmacott via Free Music Archive (CC BY 4.0)
Photo: “While the sky whirls away” by Derek Finch via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Media links: Podcast subscription, SoundCloud audio, direct audio, music only

This summer my friend and mentor Roger Ferlo introduced me to a wonderful George Herbert poem entitled “The H Scriptures II.” It’s a meditation on how scripture hangs together as a whole and also how, in a sense, scripture reads us.

In this episode I read the poem a couple of times with some quiet guitar music for reflection time in between.

---

“The H Scriptures II” by George Herbert

OH that I knew how all thy lights combine,
And the configurations of their glorie!
Seeing not onely how each verse doth shine,
But all the constellations of the storie.

This verse marks that, and both do make a motion
Unto a third, that ten leaves off doth lie:
Then as dispersed herbs do watch a potion,
These three make up some Christians destinie:

Such are thy secrets, which my life makes good,
And comments on thee: for in ev’ry thing
Thy words do finde me out, & parallels bring,
And in another make me understood.

Starres are poore books, & oftentimes do misse:
This book of starres lights to eternall blisse.

---

You can support Creative Commons Prayer by buying this design as a card on Zazzle or by purchasing related media on Amazon.

The Complete Works of George Herbert (only $1 on Kindle!)

Sensing God: Reading Scripture with All of Our Senses by Roger Ferlo

Card with a George Herbert poem about scripture
by Creative_Cmns_Prayer

Subscribe to this site to receive regular multimedia prayer resources via email. Check out this post to learn more about our mission. Support us by pledging on Patreon (many rewards available) or through purchases on Zazzle and Amazon.
You can reuse or remix all the resources on this site for any purpose as long as you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license (usually CC BY 2.0), and indicate if changes were made. Learn more about reuse at creativecommons.org.
This site publishes and shares Creative Commons-licensed content but is not affiliated with or sponsored by Creative Commons in any way.

The post Poems as Prayer: ‘The H Scriptures II’ (Herbert) appeared first on Creative Commons Prayer.