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...
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. . . .
life heaven great-art
Heaven's great artillery.
christmas heaven earth
Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
conscious god saw water
The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.
body fable kisses-and-kissing sweet
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.
farewell
Farewell house, and farewell home! / She's for the Moors, and martyrdom.
rise thine thy
It was Thy day, sweet! and did rise / Not from the East, but from Thine eyes.
eternity shut wonders
Welcome, all wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span.
walking weeping
Two walking baths; two weeping motions;/ Portable, and compendious oceans.
daughter deaths eagle large lights lives thou thy
O thou undaunted daughter of desires! / By all thy dower of lights and fires; / By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; / By all thy lives and deaths of love; / By thy large draughts of intellectual day.
sweet eye sunshine
Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace.
angel wings thee
A pillow for thee will I bring,Stuffed with down of angel's wing.
life crime wells
And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.