Sure thou did'st nourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings, Which now are dead, lodg'd in thy living bowers. And still a new succession sings and flies; Fresh groves grow up, and their green branches shoot Towards the old and still-enduring skies; While the low violet thrives at their root.
They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here. - 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
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…
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
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…
For each inclosed spirit is a star Enlightening his own little sphere - Henry Vaughan
For each inclosed spirit is a star Enlightening his own little sphere
As great a store Have we of books as bees of herbs or more. - Henry Vaughan
As great a store Have we of books as bees of herbs or more.
Some syllables are swords. - Henry Vaughan
Some syllables are swords.
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
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.
The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day. - Henry Vaughan
The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.
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
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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