The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw,...
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Source: The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems
“In love's field was never found A nobler weapon than a wound.”
“Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.”
Source: The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto
“Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace.”
“Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.”
Source: Complete Works
Source: Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems
“And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.”
Source: The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto
“A pillow for thee will I bring,Stuffed with down of angel's wing.”
Source: The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto
“Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.”
“A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day.”
Source: Complete Works
“Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.”
Source: Selected poems
“Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there be words not made with lungs.”
Source: 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