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 aug…

- Henry Vaughan

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

- Henry Vaughan

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! w…

- Henry Vaughan

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

- Henry Vaughan

Some syllables are swords.

- Henry Vaughan

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

- Henry Vaughan

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

- Henry Vaughan

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

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