Richard Crashaw Quotes

Welcome, all wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span. - Richard Crashaw

Two walking baths; two weeping motions;/ Portable, and compendious oceans. - Richard Crashaw

The conscious water saw its God, and blushed. - Richard Crashaw

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. - Richard Crashaw

Love, thou art absolute sole Lord Of life and death. - Richard Crashaw

Life, that dares send / A challenge to his end, / And when it comes say, `Welcome, friend!' - Richard Crashaw

It was Thy day, sweet! and did rise / Not from the East, but from Thine eyes. - Richard Crashaw

Farewell house, and farewell home! / She's for the Moors, and martyrdom. - Richard Crashaw

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 Crashaw

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