Quotes by Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan

A ward, and still in bonds, one day I stole abroad; It was high spring, and all the way Primrosed and hung with shade; Yet was it frost within, And surly winds Blasted my infant buds, and sin Like clouds eclipsed my mind.

Clouds

Spring

Wind

Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.

Mother

Son

Yield

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep. So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams, And into glory peep.

Angel

Dream

Sleep

As great a store Have we of books as bees of herbs or more.

Bees

Book

Herbs

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

Fighting

Men

Truth Is

Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord’s hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee, though my light be dim, Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne, And minds the covenant between all and One.

Eye

Light

Sunshine

Bright shadows of true rest! some shoots of bliss; Heaven once a week; The next world’s gladness prepossest in this; A day to seek; Eternity in time; the steps by which We climb above all ages: lamps that light Man through his heap of dark days; and the rich And full redemption of the whole week’s flight.

Dark

Light

Men

But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.

Felt

Immortality

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

Dear

Death

Jewels

Dear Night! this world’s defeat; The stop to busy fools; care’s check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul’s calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ’s progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven cloth chime.

Heaven

Night

Prayer

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Angel

Bees

Book

Breathing

Christmas

Clouds

Common

Country

Dark

Darkness

Dear

Death

Doors

Dream

Ease

Enlightenment

Eye

Fall

Fear

Felt

Fighting

Fire

First Love

Firsts

Flower

Friendship

Gone

Growing Up

Heart

Heaven

Herbs

Home

Immortality

Ivy

Jewels

Late

Light

Littles

Lying

Mean

Men

Morning

Mother

Moving

Night

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Quotes by Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan

A ward, and still in bonds, one day I stole abroad; It was high spring, and all the way Primrosed and hung with shade; Yet was it frost within, And surly winds Blasted my infant buds, and sin Like clouds eclipsed my mind.

Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep. So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams, And into glory peep.

As great a store Have we of books as bees of herbs or more.

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord’s hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee, though my light be dim, Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne, And minds the covenant between all and One.

But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

Dear Night! this world’s defeat; The stop to busy fools; care’s check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul’s calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ’s progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven cloth chime.

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