Henry Vaughan Quotes

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• I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.

  Henry Vaughan

  Night, Light, Saws

  'The World' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.

  Henry Vaughan

  Moving, Fall, Men

  'The Retreat' l.29 from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• For each inclosed spirit is a star
  Enlightening his own little sphere

  Henry Vaughan

  Stars, Enlightenment, Littles

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Early, as well as late,
  Rise with the sun, and set in the same bowers

  Henry Vaughan

  Routine, Sun, Late

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• There is in God - some say - A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!

  Henry Vaughan

  Night, Men, Darkness

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1856). “The Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations of Henry Vaughan”, p.244

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

  Henry Vaughan

  Book, Herbs, Bees

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1856). “The Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations of Henry Vaughan”, p.277

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• They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

  Henry Vaughan

  Light, Age, Gone

  'They Are All Gone' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• Some syllables are swords.

  Henry Vaughan

  Syllables

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.112

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• My soul, there is a country Far beyond the stars Where stands a wingèd sentry All skillful in the wars: There, above noise and danger, Sweet Peace is crowned with smiles, And One born in a manger Commands the beauteous files.

  Henry Vaughan

  Country, Sweet, Stars

  'Peace' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

  Henry Vaughan

  Christmas, Light, Breathing

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.119

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• Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

  Henry Vaughan

  Men, Darkness, Triumph

  George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Louis Lohr Martz (1986). “George Herbert and Henry Vaughan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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.

  Henry Vaughan

  Dream, Sleep, Angel

  'They Are All Gone' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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

  Henry Vaughan

  Mother, Son, Yield

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis LYTE (1847). “Silex scintillans, 1650. A ... facsimile”, p.31

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• Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth,
  Man's resurrection, and the future's bud
  Shroud in their births.

  Henry Vaughan

  Morning, Men, Firsts

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Prayer is The world in tune, A spirit-voyce, And vocall joyes, Whose Eccho is heaven's blisse.

  Henry Vaughan

  Prayer, Heaven, Tunes

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.94

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

  Henry Vaughan

  Fighting, Men, Truth Is

  "Hermetical Physick of Henry Nollus". Book by Henry Vaughan, Preface, 1655.

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• 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.

  Henry Vaughan

  Prayer, Night, Heaven

  'The Night' l. 25 from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

  Henry Vaughan

  Prayer, Wings, Wish

  1650 Silex Scintillans, 'The Search'.

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• Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.

  Henry Vaughan

  Men, Quests, Passages

  'Man' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

  Henry Vaughan

  Death, Jewels, Dear

  'They Are All Gone' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• 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.

  Henry Vaughan

  Spring, Clouds, Wind

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.

  Henry Vaughan

  Writing, Mean, Doors

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1858). “Silex Scintillans, &c: Sacred Poems and Pious Ejaculations”, p.10

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• I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.

  Henry Vaughan

  Fire, Soul, Common

  1650 Silex Scintillans, 'The Garland'.

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• Should poor souls fear a shade or night,
  Who came sure from a sea of light?
  Or since those drops are all sent back
  So sure to thee, that none doth lack,
  Why should frail flesh doubt any more
  That what God takes, He'll not restore?

  Henry Vaughan

  Fear, Night, Light

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.266

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

  Henry Vaughan

  Immortality, Felt

  'The Retreat' l.19 from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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