Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughanwas a Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth17 April 1622
syllables
Some syllables are swords.
caesar rescued
Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
men darkness triumph
Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.
views soil young
Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new.
lying dark men
Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!
angel men self
Dear, harmless age! the short, swift span Where weeping Virtue parts with man; Where love without lust dwells, and bends What way we please without self-ends. An age of mysteries! which he Must live that would God's face see Which angels guard, and with it play, Angels! which foul men drive away.
country military being-true
To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
mean writing doors
Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.
fire soul common
I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.
moving fall men
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.
immortality felt
But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.
christmas breathing light
The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.
fighting men truth-is
As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.
flower rose ease
If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease.