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... meet Sweetness so sad , sadness so sweet . 4 When Sorrow would be seen In her brightest majesty , For she is a queen , Then is she drest by none but thee . Then , and only then , she wears Her richest pearls , I mean thy tears . The dew ...
... meet Sweetness so sad , sadness so sweet . 4 When Sorrow would be seen In her brightest majesty , For she is a queen , Then is she drest by none but thee . Then , and only then , she wears Her richest pearls , I mean thy tears . The dew ...
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... meet A worthy object , our Lord's feet . 31 THE WEEPER . [ In the edition of 1670 , the volume by Mr. Phillips in 1785 , in Chalmers ' collection , and others , the previous Poem is printed with numerous alterations and omissions , in ...
... meet A worthy object , our Lord's feet . 31 THE WEEPER . [ In the edition of 1670 , the volume by Mr. Phillips in 1785 , in Chalmers ' collection , and others , the previous Poem is printed with numerous alterations and omissions , in ...
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... meet , Thine crawls above and is the cream . Heaven , of such fair floods as this , Heaven the crystal ocean is . 5 Every morn from hence , A brisk cherub something sips , Whose soft influence Adds sweetness to his sweetest lips ; Then ...
... meet , Thine crawls above and is the cream . Heaven , of such fair floods as this , Heaven the crystal ocean is . 5 Every morn from hence , A brisk cherub something sips , Whose soft influence Adds sweetness to his sweetest lips ; Then ...
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... meet Sweetness so sad , sadness so sweet . Sadness , all the while She sits in such a throne as this , Can do nought but smile , Nor believe she sadness is : Gladness itself would be more glad To be made so sweetly sad . 12 There is no ...
... meet Sweetness so sad , sadness so sweet . Sadness , all the while She sits in such a throne as this , Can do nought but smile , Nor believe she sadness is : Gladness itself would be more glad To be made so sweetly sad . 12 There is no ...
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... meet A worthier object , our Lord's feet . THE TEAR . 23 HAT bright soft thing is this , Sweet Mary , thy fair eyes ' expense ? A moist spark it is , A watery diamond ; from whence The very term , I think , was found ́ The water of a ...
... meet A worthier object , our Lord's feet . THE TEAR . 23 HAT bright soft thing is this , Sweet Mary , thy fair eyes ' expense ? A moist spark it is , A watery diamond ; from whence The very term , I think , was found ́ The water of a ...
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adeo adhuc Æther amor Antiphon atque blest blood blush breast breath bright cheeks Christe cœli COUNTESS OF DENBIGH Crashaw dæmon dear death dedit Deus dicere doth Ecce erat Ergo erit eyes face fire flames fuit glory habet hæc hanc hast hath heart heaven hinc holy ignes illa ille illi Inque ipsa ipse ista JOAN joys kiss lacrymas live Lord Love's magis manus MATTH mihi murmurs neque nest night nihil nives nunc oculis oculos opus pow'rs precious puer quæ quam quid Quippe quis quod quoque Responsor RICHARD CRASHAW sacrum satis scilicet shalt sibi sinus smile soft soul staret stars sunt suum sweet tamen tantum tears tenebras thee Thine thou Thy Cross thy fair thyself tibi tuæ tuam tuis tunc tuum tuus umbra unda velit Versicle vex'd vulnera weep wounds
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Page 127 - WHOE'ER she be — That not impossible She That shall command my heart and me ; Where'er she lie, Lock'd up from mortal eye In shady leaves of destiny ; Till that ripe birth Of studied Fate stand forth And teach her fair steps to our earth ; Till that divine Idea take a shrine Of crystal flesh, through which to shine ; Meet you her, my Wishes, Bespeak her to my blisses, And be ye call'd my absent kisses.
Page ix - POET and Saint ! to thee alone are given The two most sacred names of Earth and Heaven ; The hard and rarest union which can be, Next that of Godhead with humanity. Long did the Muses...
Page 82 - Blends all together; then distinctly trips From this to that; then quick returning skips And snatches this again, and pauses there. She measures every measure, everywhere Meets art with art; sometimes as if in doubt Not perfect yet, and fearing to be out, Trails her plain ditty in one long-spun note, Through the sleek passage of her open throat, A clear unwrinkled song...
Page xi - Elisha-like (but with a wish much less, More fit thy greatness, and my littleness) Lo here I beg (I whom thou once didst prove So humble to esteem, so good to love) Not that thy spirit might on me doubled be, I ask but half thy mighty spirit for me ; And when my muse soars with so strong a wing, 'Twill learn of things divine, and first of thee to sing.
Page 195 - O thou undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires; By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; By all thy lives and deaths of love; By thy large draughts of intellectual day And by thy thirsts of love, more large than they; By all thy...
Page 31 - Come, we shepherds, whose blest sight Hath met Love's noon in Nature's night; Come, lift we up our loftier song And wake the sun that lies too long.
Page xi - Rather than thus our wills too strong for it. His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong ; his life, I'm sure, was in the right...
Page 141 - Keep the free heart from its own hands! So when the year takes cold, we see Poor waters their own prisoners be, Fetter'd, and lock'd up fast they lie In a sad self-captivity; Th' astonish'd Nymphs their floods' strange fate deplore, To see themselves their own severer shore.
Page 130 - Days, that need borrow No part of their good morrow From a fore-spent night of sorrow : Days, that in spite Of darkness, by the light Of a clear mind are day all night. Life, that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, 'Welcome, friend.
Page 66 - Shall flourish on thy brows, and be Both fire to us and flame to thee ; Whose light shall live bright in thy face By glory, in our hearts by grace. Thou shalt look round about, and see Thousands of...