Poetry Codex

Metaphysical & Cavalier

Henry Vaughan

1621–1695

Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) was a Welsh metaphysical poet and physician who styled himself ‘the Silurist.’

He is best known for the sacred poems of Silex Scintillans (1650), written under the deep influence of George Herbert.

Poems (176)

  1. Death. A Dialogue.
  2. Resurrection and Immortality:
  3. Day of Judgement.
  4. Religion.
  5. The Search.
  6. Isaacs Marriage.
  7. The Brittish Church.
  8. The Lampe.
  9. Mans fall, and Recovery.
  10. The Showre.
  11. Distraction.
  12. The Pursuite.
  13. Mount of Olives.
  14. The Incarnation, and Passion.
  15. The Call.
  16. (untitled)
  17. Vanity of Spirit.
  18. The Retreate.
  19. (untitled)
  20. Midnight.
  21. Content.
  22. (untitled)
  23. The Storm.
  24. The Morning-watch.
  25. The Evening-watch. A Dialogue.
  26. (untitled)
  27. Church-Service.
  28. Buriall.
  29. Chearfulness.
  30. (untitled)
  31. Peace.
  32. The Passion.
  33. 2.
  34. The Relapse.
  35. The Resolve.
  36. The Match.
  37. Rules and Lessons.
  38. Corruption.
  39. H. Scriptures.
  40. Unprofitablenes.
  41. CHRISTS Nativity.
  42. (untitled)
  43. The Check.
  44. Disorder and frailty.
  45. Idle Verse.
  46. Son-dayes.
  47. Repentance.
  48. The BURIAL Of an Infant.
  49. Faith.
  50. The Dawning.
  51. Admission.
  52. Praise.
  53. Dressing.
  54. Easter-day.
  55. Easter Hymn.
  56. The Holy Communion.
  57. Psalm 121.
  58. Affliction.
  59. The Tempest.
  60. Retirement.
  61. Love, and Discipline.
  62. The Pilgrimage.
  63. The Law, and the Gospel.
  64. The World.
  65. The Mutinie.
  66. The Constellation.
  67. The Shepheards.
  68. Misery.
  69. The Sap.
  70. Mount of Olives.
  71. Man.
  72. (untitled)
  73. Begging.
  74. On a Charnel-House
  75. On Gombauld's Endymion
  76. Apostrophe to Fletcher the Dramatist
  77. The Golden Age
  78. Regeneration
  79. Ascension-Day
  80. Cock-Crowing
  81. The Palm-Tree
  82. The Garland
  83. Love-Sick
  84. Psalm Civ
  85. The Timber
  86. The Jews
  87. Palm-Sunday
  88. Providence
  89. St Mary Magdalene
  90. The Rainbow
  91. The Seed Growing Secretly
  92. Childhood
  93. Abel's Blood
  94. Righteousness
  95. Jacob's Pillow and Pillar
  96. The Feast
  97. The Waterfall
  98. To my Ingenuous Friend, R. W.
  99. Les Amours
  100. To Amoret. The Sigh
  101. To his Friend, Being in Love
  102. Song: [Amyntas go, thou art Undone]
  103. To Amoret. Walking in a Starry Evening
  104. To Amoret Gone from him
  105. A Song to Amoret
  106. An Elegy
  107. A Rhapsodis
  108. To Amoret, of the Difference 'twixt him and other Lovers, and what True Love is
  109. To Amoret Weeping
  110. Upon the Priory Grove, his Usual Retirement
  111. Olor Iscanus. To the River Isca
  112. The Charnel-House
  113. To his Friend ----
  114. To his Retired Friend, An Invitation to Brecknock
  115. An Elegy on the Death of Mr. R. W., Slain in the late Unfortunate Differences at Routon Heath, near Chester, 1645
  116. Upon a Cloak lent him by Mr. J. Ridsley
  117. Upon Mr. Fletcher's Plays, Published 1647
  118. Upon the Poems and Plays of the Ever-Memorable Mr. William Cartwright
  119. To the Best and Most Accomplished Couple ----
  120. An Elegy on the Death of Mr. R. Hall, Slain at Pontefract, 1648
  121. To my Learned Friend, Mr. T. Powell, upon his Translation of Malvezzi's Christian Politician
  122. To my Worthy Friend, Master T. Lewes
  123. To the Most Excellently Accomplished Mrs. K. Philips
  124. An Epitaph upon the Lady Elizabeth, Second Daughter to his Late Majesty
  125. To Sir William Davenant upon his Gondibert
  126. To his Learned Friend and Loyal Fellow-Prisoner, Thomas Powel of Cant[reff], Doctor of Divinity
  127. The King Disguised
  128. The Eagle
  129. To Mr. M. L. upon his Reduction of the Psalms into Method
  130. To the Pious Memory of C[harles] W[albeoffe] Esquire, Who Finished his Course Here, and Made his Entrance into Immortality upon the 13 of September, in the Year of Redemption, 1653
  131. In Zodiacum Marcelli Palingenii
  132. To Lysimachus, the Author Being with him in London
  133. On Sir Thomas Bodley's Library, the Author Being Then in Oxford
  134. The Importunate Fortune, Written to Dr. Powel, of Cant[reff]
  135. To I. Morgan of Whitehall, Esq., upon his Sudden Journey and Succeeding Marriage
  136. Fida; or, The Country Beauty. To Lysimachus
  137. Fida Forsaken
  138. To the Editor of the Matchless Orinda
  139. Upon Sudden News of the Much-Lamented Death of Judge Trevers
  140. To Etesia (for Timander); The First Sight
  141. The Character, to Etesia
  142. To Etesia Looking from her Casement at the Full Moon
  143. To Etesia Parted from Him, and Looking Back
  144. To Etesia Going Beyond Sea
  145. Etesia Absent
  146. To his Books
  147. Looking Back
  148. The Shower
  149. Discipline
  150. The Eclipse
  151. Affliction
  152. Retirement
  153. The Revival
  154. The Day Spring
  155. The Recovery
  156. The Nativity
  157. The True Christmas
  158. The Request
  159. The World
  160. The Bee
  161. To Christian Religion
  162. Daphnis
  163. The Knot
  164. The Dwelling-place
  165. Quickness
  166. Casimir, Lyricorum Lib. IV, Ode XXVIII
  167. Casimir, Lyricorum Lib. II, Ode VII
  168. Casimir, Lyricorum Lib. III, Ode XXII
  169. Casimir, Lyricorum Lib. III, Ode XXIII
  170. Casimir, Lyricorum Lib. IV, Ode XV
  171. Casimir, Lyricorum Lib. IV, Ode XIII
  172. The Praise of a Religious Life, by Mathias Casimirus
  173. To Charles the First
  174. They are all gone into the world of light!
  175. As time one day by me did pass
  176. The Night

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