Henry Vaughan Quotes

• 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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• 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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• Todos se han ido al mundo de la luz, y sólo yo permanezco aquí.

  Henry Vaughan

  Light, Age, Gone

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Some syllables are swords.

  Henry Vaughan

  Sílabas

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

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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.

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  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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• 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.

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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Henry Vaughan

  Dark, Men, Light

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

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• Happy those early days when I Shined in my Angel-infancy. Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back (at that short space) Could see a glimpse of His bright face. When on some gilded cloud or flower My gazing soul would dwell an hour And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity.

  Henry Vaughan

  Flower, Angel, First Love

  Silex Scintillans "The Retreat" l. 1 (1650 - 1655)

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