Richard Crashaw
Richard Crashaw
Richard Crashaw, was an English poet, teacher, Anglican cleric and Catholic convert, who was among the major figures associated with the metaphysical poets in seventeenth-century English literature...
grief speak wells
Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.
summer june heaven
A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day.
farewell home heaven
Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .
death sweet kissing
And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and so away.
life heaven great-art
Heaven's great artillery.
two praying bragging
Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.
pain grieving shining
All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, and thy pains sit bright on thee. All thy sorrows here shall shine and thy sufferings be divine; Tears shall take comfort and turn to gems and wrongs repent to diadems Even thy deaths shall live and new dress the soul that once they slew.
christmas heaven earth
Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
sweet night play
Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.