46 Quotes by Henry Vaughan

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.

Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.

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.

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.

But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.

The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease.

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.