Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Crashaw

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Richard Crashaw was an English poet, teacher, High Church Anglican cleric and Roman Catholic convert, who was one of the major metaphysical poets in 17th-century English literature.

English - Poet | 1612 - August 25, 1649

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

Richard Crashaw

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

Richard Crashaw

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

Richard Crashaw

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

Richard Crashaw

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

Richard Crashaw

Locked up from mortal eye in shady leaves of destiny.

Richard Crashaw

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

Richard Crashaw

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

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

Richard Crashaw

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

Richard Crashaw

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

Richard Crashaw

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.

Richard Crashaw

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

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

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

Heaven's great artillery.

Richard Crashaw

Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Crashaw

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