Henry Vaughan Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ's progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven cloth chime.

  Henry Vaughan

  Prayer, Night, Heaven

  'The Night' l. 25 from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

• And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep. So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams, And into glory peep.

  Henry Vaughan

  Dream, Sleep, Angel

  'They Are All Gone' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

• 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 aught But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back (at that short space) Could see a glimpse of His bright face. When on some gilded cloud or flower My gazing soul would dwell an hour And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity.

  Henry Vaughan

  Flower, Angel, First Love

  Silex Scintillans "The Retreat" l. 1 (1650 - 1655)

• 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.

  Henry Vaughan

  Fire, Soul, Common

  1650 Silex Scintillans, 'The Garland'.

• My soul, there is a country Far beyond the stars Where stands a wingèd sentry All skillful in the wars: There, above noise and danger, Sweet Peace is crowned with smiles, And One born in a manger Commands the beauteous files.

  Henry Vaughan

  Country, Sweet, Stars

  'Peace' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

• When first thy eyes unveil, give thy soul leave
  To do the like; our bodies but forerun
  The spirit's duty. True hearts spread and heave
  Unto their God, as flow'rs do to the sun.
  Give him thy first thoughts then; so shalt thou keep
  Him company all day, and in him sleep.

  Henry Vaughan

  Prayer, Heart, Sleep

  George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Louis Lohr Martz (1986). “George Herbert and Henry Vaughan”, Oxford University Press, USA

• Should poor souls fear a shade or night,
  Who came sure from a sea of light?
  Or since those drops are all sent back
  So sure to thee, that none doth lack,
  Why should frail flesh doubt any more
  That what God takes, He'll not restore?

  Henry Vaughan

  Fear, Night, Light

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.266

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