46 Quotes by Henry Vaughan

I saw Eternity the other night,Like a great ring of pure and endless light,All calm, as it was bright;And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years,Driv'n by the spheresLike a vast shadow mov'd; in which the worldAnd all her train were hurl'd.

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

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.

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.

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new.

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!