Who is Thomas Traherne

Thomas Traherne (; 1636 or 1637 – c. 27 September 1674) was an English poet, Anglican cleric, theologian, and religious writer. The intense, scholarly spirituality in his writings has led to his being commemorated by some parts of the Anglican Communion on 10 October (the anniversary of his burial in 1674) or on 27 September.

The work for which Traherne is best known today is the Centuries of Meditations, a collection of short paragraphs in which he reflects on Christian life and ministry, philosophy, happiness, desire and childhood. This was first published in 1908 after having been rediscovered in manuscript ten years earlier. His poetry likewise was first published in 1903 and 1910 (The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, B.D. and Poems of Felicity). His prose works include ...
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Thomas Traherne Poems

• News
  News from a foreign country came
  As if my treasure and my wealth lay there;
  So much it did my heart inflame,
  'Twas wont to call my Soul into mine ear;...

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Thomas Traherne Quotes

• The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

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• Edwardcwilde: thomas traherne, the soul’s communion with her savior, 1.1.7
• Nickadamsinusa: this trio is destroying america.
• Momlovedquotes: death cannot kill what never dies. thomas traherne
• Ericmparker: "and first o lord i prais and magnify thy name for the most holy virgin-mother of god, who is the highest of thy saints. the most glorious of all thy creatures. the most perfect of all thy works. the nearest unto thee, in the throne of god." -thomas traherne
• Ericmparker: "the cross of christ is the jacob's ladder by which we ascend into the highest heavens...that cross is a tree set on fire with invisible flame, that illuminateth all the world. the flame is love. the love is his bosom who died on it." -thomas traherne

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