| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 39. The Knot |
| By Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) |
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| BRIGHT Queen of Heaven! Gods Virgin Spouse | |
| The glad worlds blessed maid! | |
| Whose beauty tyed life to thy house, | |
| And brought us saving ayd. | |
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| Thou art the true Loves-knot; by thee | 5 |
| God is made our Allie, | |
| And mans inferior Essence he | |
| With his did dignifie. | |
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| For Coalescent by that Band | |
| We are his body grown, | 10 |
| Nourished with favors from his hand | |
| Whom for our head we own. | |
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| And such a Knot, what arm dares loose, | |
| What life, what death can sever? | |
| Which us in him, and him in us | 15 |
| United keeps for ever. | |
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