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 ...
I walk'd the other day, to spend my hour, Into a field, Where I sometimes had seen the soil to yield A gallant ...
Sweet, harmless lives! (on whose holy leisure Waits innocence and pleasure),Whose leaders to those pastures, and clear springs, Were patriarchs, saints, and ...
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 ...
They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit ling'ring here; Their very memory is fair and bright, And ...
O Lord, the hope of Israel, all they that forsakeThee shall be ashamed ; and they that depart fromThee, shall be ...
. Whatever 'tis, whose beauty here below Attracts thee thus and makes thee stream and flow, And wind and curl, and wink ...
Joy of my life while left me here! And still my love!How in thy absence thou dost steer Me from above! A life ...
They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit ling'ring here;Their very memory is fair and bright, And ...
. O joys! infinite sweetness! with what flow'rs And shoots of glory my soul breaks and buds! All the long hours Of night, ...
Father of lights! what sunny seed,What glance of day hast Thou confinedInto this bird? To all the breedThis busy ray ...
Ah! what time wilt Thou come? when shall that cry,"The bridegroom's coming," fill the sky?Shall it in the evening run,When ...
1.SWEET, sacred hill ! on whose fair browMy Saviour sate, shall I allow Language to love,And idolize some shade, or grove,Neglecting ...
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 God, how gracious art thou! I had slipt Almost to hell,And on the verge of that dark, dreadful pit Did hear ...
. Happy those early days, when I Shin'd in my angel-infancy! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my ...
Sure it was so. Man in those early daysWas not all stone and earth;He shined a little, and by those ...
Hail sacred shades! cool, leavy House!Chaste treasurer of all my vows,And wealth! on whose soft bosom laidMy love's fair steps ...
Happy that first white age when weLived by the earth's mere charity!No soft luxurious diet thenHad effeminated men:No other meat, ...
1.'TWAS so ; I saw thy birth. That drowsy lake From her faint bosom breath'd thee, the disease Of her sick waters ...
LORD, when Thou didst Thyself undress, Laying by Thy robes of glory,To make us more, Thou wouldst be less, And becam'st a ...
Love, the world's life! What a sad deathThy absence is to lose our breathAt once and die, is but to ...
If I were dead, and, in my place,Some fresher youth designedTo warm thee, with new fires; and graceThose arms I ...
Sweet, harmless lives! (on whose holy leisure Waits innocence and pleasure), Whose leaders to those pastures, and clear springs, Were ...
1 Whatever 'tis, whose beauty here below 2 Attracts thee thus and makes thee stream and flow, 3 And wind ...
1 With what deep murmurs through time's silent stealth 2 Doth thy transparent, cool, and wat'ry wealth 3 Here flowing ...
1 They are all gone into the world of light! 2 And I alone sit ling'ring here; 3 Their very ...
Hail sacred shades! cool, leavy House! Chaste treasurer of all my vows, And wealth! on whose soft bosom laid My ...
Love, the world's life! What a sad death Thy absence is to lose our breath At once and die, is ...
They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit ling'ring here; Their very memory is fair ...
1 I walk'd the other day, to spend my hour, 2 Into a field, 3 Where I sometimes had seen ...
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