Richard Crashaw Quotes
1610–1649 England
Richard Crashaw (c. 1613 – 21 August 1649) English poet, styled "the divine," was part of the Seventeenth-century Metaphysical School of poets.
Also known as: Crashaw, Richard
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A happy soul, that all the way
To heaven hath a summer’s day.
The conscious water saw its God and blushed.
Epigrammatum sacrorum liber (1634)
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
’Tis love, not years or limbs that can
Make the martyr, or the man.
And I, what is my crime I cannot tell,
Vnless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.
Teares, quickly fled,
And vaine, as those are shed
For a dying Maydenhead.
Eyes, that displaces
The neighbor diamond, and out-faces
That sun-shine by their own sweet graces.
The modest front of this small floor,
Believe me, reader, can say more
Than many a braver marble can,—
“Here lies a truly honest man!”
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.
Life that dares send
A challenge to his end,
And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!
Tresses, that wear
Jewels, but to declare
How much themselves more precious are.
Whoe’er she be,
That not impossible she,
That shall command my heart and me.
Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues,
And there be words not made with lungs;
Sententious showers, O, let them fall,
Their cadence is rhetorical.
She'l bargain with them; and will giue
Them GOD; teach them how to liue
In him; or if they this deny,
For him she'l teach them how to Dy.
Sydneian showers
Of sweet discourse, whose powers
Can crown old Winter’s head with flowers.
Where’er she lie,
Locked up from mortal eye,
In shady leaves of destiny.