Author: Henry Vaughan

Silence, and stealth of days! ’tis now Since thou art gone, Twelve hundred hours, and not a brow But clouds […]

My God, how gracious art thou! I had slipt Almost to hell, And on the verge of that dark, dreadful […]

1 O joys! infinite sweetness! with what flow’rs 2 And shoots of glory my soul breaks and buds! 3 All […]

1 Unfold! unfold! Take in His light, 2 Who makes thy cares more short than night. 3 The joys which […]

1 With what deep murmurs through time’s silent stealth 2 Doth thy transparent, cool, and wat’ry wealth 3 Here flowing […]

Hail sacred shades! cool, leavy House! Chaste treasurer of all my vows, And wealth! on whose soft bosom laid My […]

How rich, O Lord! how fresh thy visits are! ‘Twas but just now my bleak leaves hopeless hung Sullied with […]

1 I saw Eternity the other night, 2 Like a great ring of pure and endless light, 3 All calm, […]

Fresh fields and woods! the Earth’s fair face, God’s foot-stool, and man’s dwelling-place. I ask not why the first Believer […]

BODY 1 Farewell! I go to sleep; but when 2 The day-star springs, I’ll wake again. SOUL 3 Go, sleep […]

1 I walk’d the other day, to spend my hour, 2 Into a field, 3 Where I sometimes had seen […]

Love, the world’s life! What a sad death Thy absence is to lose our breath At once and die, is […]

They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit ling’ring here; Their very memory is fair […]

Sure thou didst flourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Pass’d o’er thy head; many […]