Henry Vaughan Poems (75 Poems)
I Walk’d The Other Day (Henry Vaughan Poems)
I walk’d the other day, to spend my hour, Into a field, Where I sometimes had seen the soil to yield A gallant flow’r; But winter now had ruffled all the bow’r And curious store I knew there heretofore. Yet I, whose search lov’d not to peep … Continue reading
The World (Henry Vaughan Poems)
. I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv’n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov’d; in which the world And all … Continue reading
“Thou That Know’st for Whom I Mourn” (Henry Vaughan Poems)
THOU that know’st for whom I mourn, And why these tears appear,That keep’st account till he return Of all his dust left here ;As easily Thou might’st prevent, As now produce, these tears,And add unto that day he went A fair supply of years.But … Continue reading
Regeneration (Henry Vaughan Poems)
A ward, and still in bonds, one dayI stole abroad;It was high spring, and all the wayPrimrosed and hung with shade;Yet was it frost within,And surly windsBlasted my infant buds, and sinLike clouds eclipsed my mind. Stormed thus, I straight … Continue reading
The Shepherds (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Sweet, harmless lives! (on whose holy leisure Waits innocence and pleasure),Whose leaders to those pastures, and clear springs, Were patriarchs, saints, and kings,How happened it that in the dead of night You only saw true light,While Palestine was fast asleep, and lay Without one … Continue reading
The Water-Fall (Henry Vaughan Poems)
With what deep murmurs through time’s silent stealthDoth thy transparent, cool, and wat’ry wealth Here flowing fall, And chide, and call,As if his liquid, loose retinue stay’dLing’ring, and were of this steep place afraid; The common pass Where, clear as glass, All must descend Not to … Continue reading
Beyond The Veil (Henry Vaughan Poems)
They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit ling’ring here; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear. It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, Like stars upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams … Continue reading
“O Lord, the hope of Israel” (Henry Vaughan Poems)
O Lord, the hope of Israel, all they that forsakeThee shall be ashamed ; and they that depart fromThee, shall be written in the earth, because they haveforsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters. Heal me, O Lord, and I shall … Continue reading
The Night (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Through that pure virgin shrine,That sacred veil drawn o’er Thy glorious noon,That men might look and live, as glowworms shine,And face the moon,Wise Nicodemus saw such lightAs made him know his God by night. Most blest believer he!Who in that … Continue reading
The Star (Henry Vaughan Poems)
. Whatever ’tis, whose beauty here below Attracts thee thus and makes thee stream and flow, And wind and curl, and wink and smile, Shifting thy gate and guile; Though thy close commerce nought at all imbars My present search, for eagles eye not stars, And … Continue reading
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