The Works in Verse and Prose Complete of Henry Vaughan, Silurist: Secular poetryprivate circulation, 1871 - English literature |
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... close . I name WORDSWORTH and SHELLEY because affinities with Vaughan of a memorable sort will emerge in the sequel . It was ( and is ) a covetable birth - place and as covetable death - place and last resting - place . Per- chance then ...
... close . I name WORDSWORTH and SHELLEY because affinities with Vaughan of a memorable sort will emerge in the sequel . It was ( and is ) a covetable birth - place and as covetable death - place and last resting - place . Per- chance then ...
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... close of the present Volume . I trust the Reader will do himself the justice and pleasure of turning to the remainder of this poem : and I take the present opportunity to request that where references not quotations are given , the same ...
... close of the present Volume . I trust the Reader will do himself the justice and pleasure of turning to the remainder of this poem : and I take the present opportunity to request that where references not quotations are given , the same ...
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... escaped Mr. Lyte , and has never been so far as I 1 See additional Notes and Illustrations at close of Vol . IV . for details on the Welsh quotations , & c am aware , quoted . It occurs among the tributary ESSAY . xxi .
... escaped Mr. Lyte , and has never been so far as I 1 See additional Notes and Illustrations at close of Vol . IV . for details on the Welsh quotations , & c am aware , quoted . It occurs among the tributary ESSAY . xxi .
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... Four General Heads of Christian Religion surveyed and explained .... 1657 ” . See additional Notes and Illustrations , at end of Vol . IV . as before on Vaughan's Welsh . To one of THOMAS VAUGHAN'S minor pieces - at close xxii . ESSAY .
... Four General Heads of Christian Religion surveyed and explained .... 1657 ” . See additional Notes and Illustrations , at end of Vol . IV . as before on Vaughan's Welsh . To one of THOMAS VAUGHAN'S minor pieces - at close xxii . ESSAY .
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Henry Vaughan Alexander Balloch Grosart. To one of THOMAS VAUGHAN'S minor pieces - at close of the present volume - is prefixed a sen- tence from " Anthroposophia Magica " semi- apologetic because of Welsh being native , and English ...
Henry Vaughan Alexander Balloch Grosart. To one of THOMAS VAUGHAN'S minor pieces - at close of the present volume - is prefixed a sen- tence from " Anthroposophia Magica " semi- apologetic because of Welsh being native , and English ...
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Page lviii - But there's a tree, of many one, A single field which I have looked upon. Both of them speak of something that is gone : The pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat : Whither is fled the visionary gleam ? Where is it now, the glory and the dream...
Page lvii - A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong. The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep ; No more shall grief of mine the season wrong ; I hear the echoes through the mountains throng; The winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay ; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...
Page lx - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity; Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal Mind, — • Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest Which we are toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave; Thou, over whom thy Immortality Broods like the day, a master o'er a slave...
Page lvi - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose ; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare : Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth, — But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath past away a glory from the earth.
Page lx - Thou little child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
Page lxi - Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Page lix - And unto this he frames his song : Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife ; But it will not be long Ere this be thrown aside, And with new joy and pride The little Actor cons another part, Filling from time to time his
Page lviii - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page xviii - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page lxii - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.