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by Henry Vaughan
(1621 - 1695) Timeline

Original Language
English

Christian : Protestant
Secular or Eclectic : Alchemy
17th Century

     Leave, leave, thy gadding thoughts;
               Who Pores
               and spies
          Still out of Doores,
               descries
          Within them nought.

          The skinne, and shell of things
               Though faire,
               are not
          Thy wish, nor pray'r,
               but got
          By meer Despair
               of wings.

          To rack old Elements,
               or Dust
               and say
          Sure here he must
               needs stay,
          Is not the way,
               nor just.
Search well another world; who studies this,
Travels in Clouds, seeks Manna, where none is.

 

 

-- from The Oxford Book of Mystical Verse, Edited by D. H. S. Nicholson / Edited by A. H. E. Lee

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Recommended Books


Henry Vaughan: Oxford Poetry Library, by Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan: Selected Writings, by Henry Vaughan / Edited by Anne Cluysenaar
Henry Vaughan: The Complete Poems, by Henry Vaughan
Metaphysical Poetry: (Penguin Classics), Edited by Colin Burrow
Metaphysical Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Edition), Edited by Paul Negri

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