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Henry Vaughan

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Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet (1621–1695)

Person · Open Library

Works
20

Top works

  • The Works of Henry Vaughan, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
  • Of the diseases of the mind, and the body, and which of them is most pernicious
  • Poems of Henry Vaughan Volume II
  • The poems of Henry Vaughan Silurist
  • Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume Ii

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1924-03-27
Active to
1990-04-03
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Listeners
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Total plays
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Quotes

  • As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.
  • Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.
  • 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 doth chime.
  • There is in God — some say — A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!
  • Happy those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race.
  • When yet I had not walk'd 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; Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense A several sin to every sense, But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness.

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