Henry Vaughan

Poems (7)

• Friends Departed

  They are all gone into the world of light! / And I alone sit ling'ring here; …

• Peace

  My soul, there is a country / Far beyond the stars, …

• The Retreat

  Happy those early days, when I / Shin'd in my Angel-infancy! …

• The Seed Growing Secretly

  Dear, secret greenness! nurst below / Tempests and winds and winter nights! …

• The Timber

  Sure thou didst flourish once! and many springs, / Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, …

• “Happy are the dead”

  I Walked the other day, to spend my hour, / Into a field, …

• “They are all gone”

  They are all gone into the world of light, / And I alone sit lingering here! …