Vanity Of Spirit (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Quite spent with thoughts, I left my cell and layWhere a shrill spring tuned to the early day.I begged here ...
Henry Vaughan Poems (75 Poems)
Boethius, De Consolatione (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Happy that first white age when weLived by the earth's mere charity!No soft luxurious diet thenHad effeminated men:No other meat, ...
The Pursuit (Henry Vaughan Poems)
LORD ! what a busy, restless thing Hast Thou made man ! Each day and hour he is on wing, Rests not a ...
The Shower (I) (Henry Vaughan Poems)
1.'TWAS so ; I saw thy birth. That drowsy lake From her faint bosom breath'd thee, the disease Of her sick waters ...
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, ...
The Timber (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Sure thou didst flourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Pass'd o'er thy head; many ...
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 ...
Christ’s Nativity (Henry Vaughan Poems)
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Retirement (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Fresh fields and woods! the Earth's fair face,God's foot-stool, and man's dwelling-place.I ask not why the first BelieverDid love to ...
The True Christmas (Henry Vaughan Poems)
So stick up ivy and the bays,And then restore the heathen ways.Green will remind you of the spring,Though this great ...
The Evening-Watch [A Dialogue] (Henry Vaughan Poems)
BODY Farewell! I go to sleep; but when The day-star springs, I'll wake again.SOUL Go, sleep in peace; and when thou liest Unnumber'd in ...
The Incarnation, (Henry Vaughan Poems)
LORD, when Thou didst Thyself undress, Laying by Thy robes of glory,To make us more, Thou wouldst be less, And becam'st a ...
Etesia Absent (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Love, the world's life! What a sad deathThy absence is to lose our breathAt once and die, is but to ...
A Song To Amoret (Henry Vaughan Poems)
If I were dead, and, in my place,Some fresher youth designedTo warm thee, with new fires; and graceThose arms I ...
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 ...
Unprofitableness (Henry Vaughan Poems)
How rich, O Lord! how fresh thy visits are!'Twas but just now my bleak leaves hopeless hungSullied with dust and ...
Anguish (Henry Vaughan Poems)
My God and King! to TheeI bow my knee;I bow my troubled soul, and greetWith my foul heart thy holy ...
Love And Discipline (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Since in a land not barren still(Because Thou dost Thy grace distill)My lot is fallen, blest be Thy will!And since ...
Quickness (Henry Vaughan Poems)
False life, a foil and no more, whenWilt thou be gone?Thou foul deception of all menThat would not have the ...
The Dwelling-Pla (Henry Vaughan Poems)
John 1:38-39What happy secret fountain,Fair shade or mountain,Whose undiscovered virgin gloryBoasts it this day, though not in story,Was then thy ...
“Vain Wits and Eyes” (Henry Vaughan Poems)
VAIN wits and eyesLeave, and be wise :Abuse not, shun not holy fire,But with true tears wash off your mire.Tears ...
The Evening-Watch: A Dialogue (Henry Vaughan Poems)
BODY 1 Farewell! I go to sleep; but when 2 The day-star springs, I'll wake again. SOUL 3 Go, sleep ...
The Nativity (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Peace? and to all the world? sure, One And He the Prince of Peace, hath none. He travels to be ...
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 ...
The Retreat (Henry Vaughan Poems)
1 Happy those early days, when I 2 Shin'd in my angel-infancy! 3 Before I understood this place 4 Appointed ...
The Revival (Henry Vaughan Poems)
1 Unfold! unfold! Take in His light, 2 Who makes thy cares more short than night. 3 The joys which ...
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 ...
The Star (Henry Vaughan Poems)
1 Whatever 'tis, whose beauty here below 2 Attracts thee thus and makes thee stream and flow, 3 And wind ...
Christ’s Nativity (Henry Vaughan Poems)
1 Awake, glad heart! get up and sing! 2 It is the birth-day of thy King. 3 Awake! awake! 4 ...
The Timber (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Sure thou didst flourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Pass'd o'er thy head; many ...