 | Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan - Emblems - 1857 - 410 pages
...not/why To live, but that he still may die./ How kindly will thy gentle heart, Kiss the sweetly killing dart: And close in his embraces keep Those delicious wounds that weep Balsam, to heal themselves with thus; When these thy deaths so numerous, no Shall all at once die into... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - Engelse digkuns - 1858 - 384 pages
...dies, and knows not why To live, but that he still may die ! How kindly will thy gentle heart Kiss the sweetly-killing dart ! And close in his embraces keep Those delicious wounds, that weep Balsam, to heal themselves with thus, When these thy deaths, so numerous, Shall all at once die into... | |
 | Richard Crashaw, Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1873 - 594 pages
...death, in which who dyes Loues his death, and dyes again, And would for ever so be slain, And lines and dyes; and knowes not why To live, but that he thus may neuer leaue to dv.' It is deeply significant to find such a Hymn as that written while ' yet among... | |
 | 1923
...funerall. His is the Dart must make the Death Whose stroke shall tast thy hallow'd breath. * • * * • And that there be Fitt executioners for Thee, The...To live, But that he thus may never leave to Dy.' It may perhaps interest some to recall that the first two verses of the hymn in the Breviary for Vespers... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - 1887 - 116 pages
...100 Loves his death, and dies again And would for ever so be slain. And lives, and dies ; and knows not why To live, but that he thus may never leave to die. How kindly will thy gentle heart 105 Kiss the sweetly-killing dart ! And close in his embraces... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - Poets, English - 1900 - 290 pages
...dies Loves his death, and dies again, And would for ever so be slain. And lives, and dies ; and knows not why To live, but that he thus may never leave to die. HYMN TO S. TERESA. 89 How kindly will thy gentle heart Kiss the sweetly-killing dart ! And close... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - Poets, English - 1900 - 296 pages
...dies Loves his death, and dies again, And would for ever so be slain. And lives, and dies ; and knows not why To live, but that he thus may never leave to die. How kindly will thy gentle heart Kiss the sweetly-killing dart ! And close in his embraces keep... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1204 pages
...dies, and knows not why To live, but that he still may die ! How kindly will thy gentle heart Kiss the sweetly-killing dart ! And close in his embraces keep Those delicious wounds, that weep Balsam, to heal themselves with thus, When these thy deaths, so numerous, Shall all at once die into... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - 1901 - 284 pages
...-- Loves his death, and dies again, And would for ever so be slain. And lives, and dies ; and knows not why To live, but that he thus may never leave to die. ' How kindly will thy gentle heart Kiss the sweetly-killing dart, And close in his embraces keep... | |
 | William John Courthope - Aesthetics - 1901 - 472 pages
...Saint's experiences in the moment of death : How kindly will thy gentle heart Kiss the sweetly killing dart: And close in his embraces keep Those delicious wounds that weep Balsam, to heal themselves with thus ; When these thy deaths so numerous Shall all at once die into... | |
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And lives, and dies ; and knows not why To live, but that he thus may never leave to die. 
