Henry Vaughan Poems on Man (23 Poems)

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Retreat (Henry Vaughan Poems)

.  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 ...

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 ...

The Book (Henry Vaughan Poems)

Eternal God! Maker of allThat have lived here since the man's fall:The Rock of Ages! in whose shadeThey live unseen, ...

Man (Henry Vaughan Poems)

Weighing the steadfastness and stateOf some mean things which here below reside,Where birds like watchful clocks the noiseless dateAnd intercourse ...

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 ...

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