Richard Crashaw famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.
-- Richard Crashaw

#Sweet #Night #Play
Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
-- Richard Crashaw

#Christmas #Heaven #Littles
Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.
-- Richard Crashaw

#Grief #Speak #Wells
Locked up from mortal eye in shady leaves of destiny.
-- Richard Crashaw

#Future #Eye #Destiny
In love's field was never found A nobler weapon than a wound.
-- Richard Crashaw

#Weapons #Fields #Found
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 Crashaw

#Sweet #Art #Wine
Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .
-- Richard Crashaw

#Farewell #Home #Heaven
Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, and there are words not made with lungs.
-- Richard Crashaw

#Inspirational #Eye #Tears
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

#Death #Sweet #Kissing
A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day.
-- Richard Crashaw

#Summer #June #Heaven
Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.
-- Richard Crashaw

#Two #Praying #Bragging
A pillow for thee will I bring,Stuffed with down of angel's wing.
-- Richard Crashaw

#Angel #Wings #Thee
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 Crashaw

#Pain #Grieving #Shining
And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.
-- Richard Crashaw

#Life #Crime #Wells
Heaven's great artillery.
-- Richard Crashaw

#Life #Heaven #Great Art
Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace.
-- Richard Crashaw

#Sweet #Eye #Sunshine

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