Peace: A Poem by Henry Vaughan

A religious meditation that is sometimes used as a Church hymn

Henry Vaughan (1621–95) wrote poetry in the “metaphysical” tradition of John Donne and George Herbert, and declared himself to be a disciple of the latter. Some of his poems are indeed such close parallels to some of Herbert’s that the latter, had he still been alive, might have considered suing Vaughan for…