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.
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.
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.
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.
inspirational eye tears
Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, and there are words not made with lungs.
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.
weapons fields found
In love's field was never found A nobler weapon than a wound.
future eye destiny
Locked up from mortal eye in shady leaves of destiny.