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...
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.
sweet eye sunshine
Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace.
sweet art wine
Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.
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.
sweet night play
Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.
rise thine thy
It was Thy day, sweet! and did rise / Not from the East, but from Thine eyes.
farewell
Farewell house, and farewell home! / She's for the Moors, and martyrdom.
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.
conscious god saw water
The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.
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.
inspirational eye tears
Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, and there are words not made with lungs.