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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
43
Total plays
99

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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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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Henry
Family name
Vaughan
Gender
male
Place of birth
Llansantffraed
Place of death
Monmouthshire
Occupation
translator
Educated at
Jesus College
Languages spoken
English language
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date of birth
1621-04-17
date of death
1695-04-28
place of burial
Llansantffraed
writing language
English language
has works in the collection
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Commons category
Henry Vaughan
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