Music’s Duel (Richard Crashaw Poems)
Now westward Sol had spent the richest beamsOf noon's high glory, when, hard by the streamsOf Tiber, on the scene ...
Now westward Sol had spent the richest beamsOf noon's high glory, when, hard by the streamsOf Tiber, on the scene ...
Lord, what is man? why should he cost TheeSo dear? what had his ruin lost Thee?Lord, what is man, that ...
TO these whom death again did wedThis grave 's the second marriage-bed.For though the hand of Fate could force'Twixt soul ...
Wouldst see blithe looks, fresh cheeks beguileAge? wouldst see December smile?Wouldst see nests of new roses growIn a bed of ...
Let it no longer be a forlorn hopeTo wash an Ethiop :He's wash'd, his gloomy skin a peaceful shadeFor his ...
Tell me, bright boy, tell me, my golden lad,Whither away so frolic ? why so glad ?What all thy wealth ...
See here an easy feast that knows no wound,That under hunger's teeth will needs be sound;A subtle harvest of unbounded ...
I would be married, but I'd have no wife ;I would be married to a single life.(Richard Crashaw)
Here, where our Lord once laid his Head,Now the grave lies buried.(Richard Crashaw)
LOVE, thou are absolute, sole Lord Of life and death. To prove the word, We'll now appeal to none of ...
WE saw Thee in Thy balmy nest, Young dawn of our eternal day; We saw Thine eyes break from the ...
CHORUS Come we shepherds whose blest sight Hath met love's noon in nature's night; Come lift we up our loftier ...
O THOU undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires; By all the eagle in thee, ...
Two went to pray? O rather say One went to brag, th' other to pray: One stands up close and ...
Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from ...
Could not once blinding me, cruel, suffice? When first I look'd on thee, I lost mine eyes. (Richard Crashaw)
HAIL, sister springs, Parents of silver-footed rills! Ever bubbling things, Thawing crystal, snowy hills! Still spending, never spent; I mean ...
These houres, and that which hovers o're my End, Into thy hands, and hart, lord, I commend. Take Both to ...
Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life, Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of thy reign, Distills ...
The world's light shines, shine as it will, The world will love its darkness still. I doubt though when the ...
THY restless feet now cannot go For us and our eternal good, As they were ever wont. What though They ...
To wash an Ethiope; He's wash'd, his gloomy skin a peaceful shade, For his white soul is made; And now, ...
Lord, when the sense of thy sweet grace Sends up my soul to seek thy face. Thy blessed eyes breed ...
Know you fair, on what you look; Divinest love lies in this book, Expecting fire from your eyes, To kindle ...
TO these whom death again did wed This grave 's the second marriage-bed. For though the hand of Fate could ...
I sing the Name which None can say But touch't with An interiour Ray: The Name of our New Peace; ...
LO here a little volume, but great Book A nest of new-born sweets; Whose native fires disdaining To ly thus ...
See here an easy feast that knows no wound, That under hunger's teeth will needs be sound; A subtle harvest ...
O heart, the equal poise of love's both parts, Big alike with wounds and darts, Live in these conquering leaves; ...
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