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.
farewell
Farewell house, and farewell home! / She's for the Moors, and martyrdom.
sweet night play
Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.
christmas heaven earth
Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
farewell home heaven
Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .
future eye destiny
Locked up from mortal eye in shady leaves of destiny.
grief speak wells
Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.
weapons fields found
In love's field was never found A nobler weapon than a wound.
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.
inspirational eye tears
Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, and there are words not made with lungs.
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.
summer june heaven
A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day.
sweet eye sunshine
Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace.
walking weeping
Two walking baths; two weeping motions;/ Portable, and compendious oceans.