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 ...
Henry Vaughan Poems on Light (38 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Joy Of My Life While Left Me Here! (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Joy of my life while left me here! And still my love!How in thy absence thou dost steer Me from above! A life ...
Friends Departed (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 ...
Cock-Crowing (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Father of lights! what sunny seed,What glance of day hast Thou confinedInto this bird? To all the breedThis busy ray ...
Childhood (Henry Vaughan Poems)
I cannot reach it; and my striving eyeDazzles at it, as at eternity.Were now that chronicle alive,Those white designs which ...
Death. A Dialogue (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Soul.'TIS a sad Land, that in one dayHath dull'd thee thus ; when death shall freezeThy blood to ice, and ...
The Dawning (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Ah! what time wilt Thou come? when shall that cry,"The bridegroom's coming," fill the sky?Shall it in the evening run,When ...
“They are all gone into the world of light” (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 ...
Silence And Stealth Of Days (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Silence, and stealth of days! 'tis now Since thou art gone,Twelve hundred hours, and not a brow But clouds hang on.As he ...
Son-Days (Henry Vaughan Poems)
. 1Bright shadows of true Rest! some shoots of bliss, Heaven once a week;The next world's gladness prepossest in this; A day ...
The Nativity (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Peace? and to all the world? sure, OneAnd He the Prince of Peace, hath none.He travels to be born, and ...
Rules And Lessons (Henry Vaughan Poems)
When first thine eyes unveil, give thy soul leaveTo do the like: our bodies but forerunThe spirit's duty. True hearts spread ...
The Bird (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Hither thou com'st: the busy wind all nightBlew through thy lodging, where thy own warm wingThy pillow was. Many a ...
Vanity Of Spirit (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Quite spent with thoughts, I left my cell and layWhere a shrill spring tuned to the early day.I begged here ...
The Pursuit (Henry Vaughan Poems)
LORD ! what a busy, restless thing Hast Thou made man ! Each day and hour he is on wing, Rests not a ...
The Timber (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Sure thou didst flourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Pass'd o'er thy head; many ...
The Incarnation, (Henry Vaughan Poems)
LORD, when Thou didst Thyself undress, Laying by Thy robes of glory,To make us more, Thou wouldst be less, And becam'st a ...
Etesia Absent (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Love, the world's life! What a sad deathThy absence is to lose our breathAt once and die, is but to ...
The Revival (Henry Vaughan Poems)
. Unfold! unfold! Take in His light, Who makes thy cares more short than night. The joys which with His day-star rise, He ...
Quickness (Henry Vaughan Poems)
False life, a foil and no more, whenWilt thou be gone?Thou foul deception of all menThat would not have the ...
“Vain Wits and Eyes” (Henry Vaughan Poems)
VAIN wits and eyesLeave, and be wise :Abuse not, shun not holy fire,But with true tears wash off your mire.Tears ...
The Water-Fall (Henry Vaughan Poems)
1 With what deep murmurs through time's silent stealth 2 Doth thy transparent, cool, and wat'ry wealth 3 Here flowing ...
The World (Henry Vaughan Poems)
1 I saw Eternity the other night, 2 Like a great ring of pure and endless light, 3 All calm, ...
They are all Gone into the World of Light (Henry Vaughan Poems)
1 They are all gone into the world of light! 2 And I alone sit ling'ring here; 3 Their very ...
Etesia Absent (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Love, the world's life! What a sad death Thy absence is to lose our breath At once and die, is ...