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...
rise thine thy
It was Thy day, sweet! and did rise / Not from the East, but from Thine eyes.
christmas heaven earth
Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
future eye destiny
Locked up from mortal eye in shady leaves of destiny.
weapons fields found
In love's field was never found A nobler weapon than a wound.
summer june heaven
A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day.