Richard Crashaw quotes
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“Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.”
-- Richard CrashawSource : Richard Crashaw (2013). “Selected Poems”, p.48, Carcanet
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“Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.”
-- Richard CrashawSource : Richard Crashaw (1858). “Complete works”, p.40
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“Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.”
-- Richard CrashawSource : Richard Crashaw (1858). “The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto”, p.93
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“Locked up from mortal eye in shady leaves of destiny.”
-- Richard CrashawSource : 'Wishes to His Supposed Mistress' (1648)
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“In love's field was never found A nobler weapon than a wound.”
-- Richard CrashawSource : 'The Flaming Heart Upon the Book and Picture of Saint Teresa', collected in Carmen Deo Nostro (published posthumously,1652).
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“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.”
-- Richard CrashawSource : Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles (1857). “The poetical works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.15
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“Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .”
-- Richard CrashawSource : Richard Crashaw (1949). “The verse in English of Richard Crashaw: the 1646 text of Steps to the temple and The delights of the Muses; the 1652 text of Carmen Deo Nostro; the 1653 text of A letter from Mr. Crashaw to the Countess of Denbigh; and the poems from manuscript”
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“Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, and there are words not made with lungs.”
-- Richard CrashawSource : "Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems".
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“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.”
-- Richard CrashawSource : 'Temperance' (1652)
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“A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day.”
-- Richard CrashawSource : Richard Crashaw (1858). “Complete works”, p.118
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“Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.”
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“A pillow for thee will I bring,Stuffed with down of angel's wing.”
-- Richard CrashawSource : Richard Crashaw (1858). “The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto”, p.15
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“All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, and thy pains sit bright on thee. All thy sorrows here shall shine and thy sufferings be divine; Tears shall take comfort and turn to gems and wrongs repent to diadems Even thy deaths shall live and new dress the soul that once they slew.”
-- Richard CrashawSource : Richard Crashaw (1858). “The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto”, p.72
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“And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.”
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“Heaven's great artillery.”
-- Richard CrashawSource : Richard Crashaw, George Gilfillan, Francis Quarles (1857). “Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems”, p.170
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“Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace.”
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