Richard Crashaw Quotes

#1. Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.

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#2. Locked up from mortal eye in shady leaves of destiny.

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#3. A happy soul, that all the way
To heaven hath a summer's day.

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. A pillow for thee will I bring,Stuffed with down of angel's wing.

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#7. Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.

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#8. In love's field was never found A nobler weapon than a wound.

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#9. 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.

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#10. Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace.

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#11. And I, what is my crime I cannot tell,
Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.

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#12. Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there are words not made with lungs

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#13. Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.

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#14. Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.

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#15. Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home ...

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