“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
. Whatever 'tis, whose beauty here below Attracts thee thus and makes thee stream and flow, And wind and curl, and wink ...
I cannot reach it; and my striving eyeDazzles at it, as at eternity.Were now that chronicle alive,Those white designs which ...
Ah! what time wilt Thou come? when shall that cry,"The bridegroom's coming," fill the sky?Shall it in the evening run,When ...
. 1Bright shadows of true Rest! some shoots of bliss, Heaven once a week;The next world's gladness prepossest in this; A day ...
. 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 ...
Peace? and to all the world? sure, OneAnd He the Prince of Peace, hath none.He travels to be born, and ...
Hither thou com'st: the busy wind all nightBlew through thy lodging, where thy own warm wingThy pillow was. Many a ...
Happy that first white age when weLived by the earth's mere charity!No soft luxurious diet thenHad effeminated men:No other meat, ...
Eternal God! Maker of allThat have lived here since the man's fall:The Rock of Ages! in whose shadeThey live unseen, ...
Weighing the steadfastness and stateOf some mean things which here below reside,Where birds like watchful clocks the noiseless dateAnd intercourse ...
So stick up ivy and the bays,And then restore the heathen ways.Green will remind you of the spring,Though this great ...
. Unfold! unfold! Take in His light, Who makes thy cares more short than night. The joys which with His day-star rise, He ...
1 Awake, glad heart! get up and sing! 2 It is the birth-day of thy King. 3 Awake! awake! 4 ...
1 Bright shadows of true Rest! some shoots of bliss, Heaven once a week; The next world's gladness prepossest in ...
Peace? and to all the world? sure, One And He the Prince of Peace, hath none. He travels to be ...
1 Happy those early days, when I 2 Shin'd in my angel-infancy! 3 Before I understood this place 4 Appointed ...
1 Unfold! unfold! Take in His light, 2 Who makes thy cares more short than night. 3 The joys which ...
1 Whatever 'tis, whose beauty here below 2 Attracts thee thus and makes thee stream and flow, 3 And wind ...
So stick up ivy and the bays, And then restore the heathen ways. Green will remind you of the spring, ...
1 With what deep murmurs through time's silent stealth 2 Doth thy transparent, cool, and wat'ry wealth 3 Here flowing ...
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