Henry Vaughan Quotes about Heaven

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Prayer is The world in tune, A spirit-voyce, And vocall joyes, Whose Eccho is heaven's blisse.

Prayer is The world in tune, A spirit-voyce, And vocall joyes, Whose Eccho is heaven's blisse.

Prayer, Heaven, Tunes

Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.94

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 cloth chime.

Henry Vaughan

Prayer, Night, Heaven

'The Night' l. 25 from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

Yet never sleep the sun up. Prayer shou'd Dawn with the day. There are set, awful hours 'Twixt heaven and us. The manna was not good After sun-rising; far day sullies flowres. Rise to prevent the sun; sleep doth sin glut, And heaven's gate opens when the world's is shut.

Henry Vaughan

Prayer, Sleep, Heaven

Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1847). “Silex scintillans. Sacred poems and private ejaculations (with a mem. by H.F. Lyte).”, p.56