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 ...
. I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And ...
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 ...
A ward, and still in bonds, one dayI stole abroad;It was high spring, and all the wayPrimrosed and hung with ...
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 ...
Through that pure virgin shrine,That sacred veil drawn o'er Thy glorious noon,That men might look and live, as glowworms shine,And ...
. 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 ...
I cannot reach it; and my striving eyeDazzles at it, as at eternity.Were now that chronicle alive,Those white designs which ...
Soul.'TIS a sad Land, that in one dayHath dull'd thee thus ; when death shall freezeThy blood to ice, and ...
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 ...
Silence, and stealth of days! 'tis now Since thou art gone,Twelve hundred hours, and not a brow But clouds hang on.As he ...
. 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 ...
1.COME, my heart ! come, my head, In sighs, and tears !'Tis now, since you have lain thus dead, Some twenty years ...
"Etenim res creatoe exerto capite observantesexpectant revelationem Filiorum Dei.":"For created things, watching with head erect,await the revelation of the Sons ...
When first thine eyes unveil, give thy soul leaveTo do the like: our bodies but forerunThe spirit's duty. True hearts spread ...
Hither thou com'st: the busy wind all nightBlew through thy lodging, where thy own warm wingThy pillow was. Many a ...
Hail sacred shades! cool, leavy House!Chaste treasurer of all my vows,And wealth! on whose soft bosom laidMy love's fair steps ...
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