Henry Vaughan Poems (75 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Morning-Watc (Henry Vaughan Poems)

.  O joys! infinite sweetness! with what flow'rs  And shoots of glory my soul breaks and buds!      All the long hours      Of night, ...

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 ...

The Relapse (Henry Vaughan Poems)

My God, how gracious art thou! I had slipt       Almost to hell,And on the verge of that dark, dreadful pit       Did hear ...

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 Call (Henry Vaughan Poems)

1.COME, my heart ! come, my head,     In sighs, and tears !'Tis now, since you have lain thus dead,     Some twenty years ...

And Do They So? (Henry Vaughan Poems)

"Etenim res creatoe exerto capite observantesexpectant revelationem Filiorum Dei.":"For created things, watching with head erect,await the revelation of the Sons ...

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 ...

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