Henry Vaughan Quotes (9 Quotes)

So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God order'd motion, but ordain'd no rest.

Dear Night this world's defeat The stop to busy fools care's check and curb The day of spirits my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb Christ's progress, and His prayer-time The hours to which high Heaven cloth chime.

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch; At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch; Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

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 moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.