O Lord: my dearmost Selfe – why need I name Thee? <br />Whom I need not call - forever near; <br />O Lord: my wholest Selfe – what grammar speak Thee, <br />who art Word and Speech, and Mouth and Ear; <br /> <br />Thou art not circumscribed by any Noun, <br />that any but Thyself hath speech to say; <br />nor Pronoun Thou – who art both I and Thee <br />and He and She and every It and They; <br /> <br />All Verbs Thou art; and every verb, Thy act; <br />and yet, Thy Stillness knows no verb that moves; <br />no Adjective may praise Thee as Thou art; <br />no Adverb tell how Thy Love constant proves; <br /> <br />O Lord, my whole dear Selfe: my silent prayer <br />may speak the louder; Thy sweet Stillness share.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/selfe-s-grammar-a-sonnet-in-the-style-of-george-herbert/
