Thomas Traherne


  Anders Wollen, The Sun

You never Enjoy the World aright, till the Sea it self floweth in your Veins, till you are Clothed with the Heavens, and Crowned with the Stars: and perceiv your self to be the Sole Heir of the whole World: and more then so, becaus Men are in it who are evry one Sole Heirs, as well as you. Till you can Sing and Rejoyce and Delight in GOD, as Misers do in Gold, and Kings in Scepters, you never Enjoy the World.
--Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditations

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"Thomas Traherne: A 17th Century Mystic" by Richard Lang
"Thomas Traherne: The 17th Century Mystic Poet and Philosophy" by Joe Geddes
"The Earthly Splendour" by Thomas Traherne
"On Happiness" by Thomas Traherne
"You Never Enjoy the World Aright, Till . . ." by Thomas Traherne
"The Cross" by Thomas Traherne
"Love" by Thomas Traherne
"Prayer to the Holy Trinity" by Thomas Traherne
"Eden" by Thomas Traherne
"Innocence" by Thomas Traherne
"News" by Thomas Traherne
"Satisfaction" by Thomas Traherne
"A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God" by Thomas Traherne
"Walking" by Thomas Traherne
"Wonder" by Thomas Traherne
"The Apostasy" by Thomas Traherne
"Poverty" by Thomas Traherne
Centuries of Meditation: The First Century by Thomas Traherne
Traherne quotations
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"Thomas Traherne: His Search for Felicity" by Elsa-Brita Titchenell
"Thomas Traherne's Concept of Felicity" by James J. Balakier
"On the Wings of a Dove" by Nicolas Humphrey
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"Metaphysical poets" at The Columbia Encyclopedia