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"The flowers without clothes live,
Yet Solomon was never dressed so fine."
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), Welsh poet. Man (l. 13-14). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
"Man hath still either toys or care:
But hath no root, nor to one place is tied,
But ever restless and irregular,
About this earth doth run and ride.
He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where;
He says it is so far,
That he has quite forgot how to go there."
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), Welsh poet. Man, st. 3. |
"Early, as well as late,
Rise with the sun, and set in the same bowers;"
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), Welsh poet. Man (l. 6-7). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
"Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest
And passage through these looms
God ordered motion, but ordained no rest."
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), Welsh poet. Man (l. 26-28). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
"There growes the flowre of peace,
The Rose that cannot wither,"
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), Welsh poet. Peace (l. 14-15). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
"He is thy gracious friend
And (O my Soul awake!)
Did in pure love descend
To die here for thy sake,"
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), Welsh poet. Peace (l. 9-12). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
"Sweet peace sits crown'd with smiles
And one born in a Manger
Commands the Beauteous files,"
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), Welsh poet. Peace (l. 6-8). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
"My Soul, there is a Countrie
Far beyond the stars"
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), Welsh poet. Peace (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
""Lord," then said I, "on me one breath,
And let me die before my death!""
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), Welsh poet. Regeneration (l. 1-8). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"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 (1622-1695), Welsh poet. Regeneration (l. 1-8). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
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