Silex Scintillans, Etc: Sacred Poems and Pious EjaculationsGeorge Bell and Sons, 1891 - 276 страници |
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Angels ascents climb awake beams birds blessed blest blood bloud breath Brecknockshire brest bright bring calm canst clouds dark dayes dead dear death doest doth drest dust earth eternal ev'ry eyes fair faith faln fear fire flames flowers foul Frances Somer fresh friends give glorious glory grief grone hath head heart Heaven Henry Vaughan herbs holy hour keep leave light live look Lord lyes man's Matthew Herbert meer mercies mirth MOUNT OF OLIVES myrrh ne'r night Olor peace pious poems poor praise quick sacred Scethrog shade shew shin'd shine showers sighs Silex Scintillans sing sins sleep soul spring stars stones storms streams Sunne sure sweet tears tempests thee thine things Thomas Vaughan Thou art thou didst thou dost thou hast thoughts thy love tree troubled channel true twas unto verse veyle watch weep wert wilt wind wings youth
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Страница 126 - I saw eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright; And round beneath it, time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled...
Страница 14 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Страница 154 - O Father of eternal life, and all Created glories under thee! Resume thy spirit from this world of thrall Into true liberty. Either disperse these mists, which blot and fill My perspective (still) as they pass Or else remove me hence unto that hill, Where I shall need no glass.
Страница 146 - Now unto Him that is able to keep us from falling, and. to present us faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy ; to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Страница 213 - Christ's progress, and his prayer time; The hours to which high heaven doth chime. God's silent, searching flight: When my Lord's head is filled with dew, and all His locks are wet with the clear drops of night; His still, soft call; His knocking time; the soul's dumb watch, When spirits their fair kindred catch.
Страница 213 - When spirits their fair kindred catch. Were all my loud, evil days Calm and unhaunted as is thy dark tent, Whose peace but by some angel's wing or voice Is seldom rent; Then I in heaven all the long year Would keep, and never wander here.
Страница 54 - When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back — at that short space — Could see a glimpse of His bright face...
Страница 153 - After the sun's remove. I see them walking in an air of glory, "Whose light doth trample on my days — My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering and decays.
Страница 194 - When thou dost shine, darkness looks white and fair, Forms turn to music, clouds to smiles and air: Rain gently spends his honey-drops, and pours Balm on the cleft earth, milk on grass and flowers. Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object 1 of his eye!
Страница 145 - Which once had neither being, forme, nor name, Grant I may so Thy steps track here below, That in these Masques and shadows I may see Thy sacred way, And by those hid ascents climb to that day Which breaks from thee Who art in all things, though invisibly...