The English Poems of Richard CrashawMethuen, 1901 - 218 pages |
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... Lord Upon the Bleeding Crucifix To the Name above every Name Psalm XXIII . Psalm CXXXVII In the Holy Nativity of our Blessed Lord Page xi 3 12 16 " 19 32 34 35 36 38 46 48 50 A Hymn for the Circumcision of our Blessed Lord . Our Blessed ...
... Lord Upon the Bleeding Crucifix To the Name above every Name Psalm XXIII . Psalm CXXXVII In the Holy Nativity of our Blessed Lord Page xi 3 12 16 " 19 32 34 35 36 38 46 48 50 A Hymn for the Circumcision of our Blessed Lord . Our Blessed ...
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... Lord . Our Blessed Lord in His Circumcision to His Father To the Queen's Majesty — a Dedication . In the Glorious Epiphany of our Blessed Lord Upon Easter Day Sospetto d'Herode . • 50 55 56 • 58 · 59 70 71 Hymn of St. Thomas 97 Lauda ...
... Lord . Our Blessed Lord in His Circumcision to His Father To the Queen's Majesty — a Dedication . In the Glorious Epiphany of our Blessed Lord Upon Easter Day Sospetto d'Herode . • 50 55 56 • 58 · 59 70 71 Hymn of St. Thomas 97 Lauda ...
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... Lord , upon the water made wine 145 " It is better to go into Heaven with one eye 145 " But now they have seen and hated " 145 On the water of our Lord's Baptism 145 " Give to Caesar - and to God " 146 On the Blessed Virgin's ...
... Lord , upon the water made wine 145 " It is better to go into Heaven with one eye 145 " But now they have seen and hated " 145 On the water of our Lord's Baptism 145 " Give to Caesar - and to God " 146 On the Blessed Virgin's ...
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... Lord lay " 150 151 The sick implore St. Peter's shadow 151 Samson to his Delilah · Upon Gunpowder Plot Day Life for Death 151 151 151 On the Divine Love Upon the Holy Sepulchre 152 152 ulchre Upon the crown of thorns . To our Blessed Lord ...
... Lord lay " 150 151 The sick implore St. Peter's shadow 151 Samson to his Delilah · Upon Gunpowder Plot Day Life for Death 151 151 151 On the Divine Love Upon the Holy Sepulchre 152 152 ulchre Upon the crown of thorns . To our Blessed Lord ...
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... Lord . Our Blessed Lord in His Circumcision to His Father To the Queen's Majesty — a Dedication . In the Glorious Epiphany of our Blessed Lord Upon Easter Day . Sospetto d'Herode . Hymn of St. Thomas Lauda Sion Salvatorem 50 55 56 · 58 ...
... Lord . Our Blessed Lord in His Circumcision to His Father To the Queen's Majesty — a Dedication . In the Glorious Epiphany of our Blessed Lord Upon Easter Day . Sospetto d'Herode . Hymn of St. Thomas Lauda Sion Salvatorem 50 55 56 · 58 ...
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Antiphon arms beams birth Blessed Lord blest blood blush bosom breast breath bright brow chaste cheeks Chorus COUNTESS OF DENBIGH crown cruel dares dark dart dear Death doth E. V. Lucas e'er Earth eternal face Faith fear fire flames fruit GEORGE HERBERT PALMER glories glorious grace hand hath head heart Heaven Heliodorus Hell Holy hopes humble HYMN joys King kiss light lips Little Gidding look Love's LOVE'S SACRifice mighty morning mother murmurs Muse ne'er nest NICHOLAS FERRAR Night o'er Peterhouse poem poor Prayer precious proud Queen Responsory rich RICHARD CRASHAW rise rosy seraphim shade shine sing sleep smile soft song sorrow soul Spring stars Stephen Gwynn sweet tears thee thine eyes things thou art Thou hast Thy Cross thy fair thyself twixt unto Versicle vex'd virgin W. M. THACKERAY wake wanton weep wings woes Wouldst wounds
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Page 100 - 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...
Page 141 - 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 120 - THE TEMPLE TO PRAY.' Two went to pray? O, rather say, One went to brag, the other to pray; One stands up close and treads on high, Where the other dares not lend his eye; One nearer to God's altar trod, The other to the altar's God.
Page 29 - Tityrus, where th' hast been, Tell him, Thyrsis, what th' hast seen. Tityrus. Gloomy night embraced the place Where the noble infant lay: The babe looked up, and showed his face: In spite of darkness it was day. It was thy day, sweet, and did rise, Not from the east but from thine eyes.
Page 100 - Heaven thou hast in Him (Fair sister of the seraphim !) By all of Him we have in thee ; Leave nothing of myself in me. Let me so read thy life, that I Unto all life of mine may die.
Page x - Not in the evening's eyes, When they red with weeping are For the sun that dies, Sits sorrow with a face so fair; Nowhere but here did ever meet Sweetness so sad, sadness so sweet.
Page 144 - Life, that dares send A challenge to his end. And when it comes, say, "Welcome, friend !" Sydneian showers Of sweet discourse, whose powers Can crown old Winter's head with flowers.
Page 93 - 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!
Page 97 - Make not too much haste to admire That fair-cheek'd fallacy of fire. That is a seraphim, they say, And this the great Teresia. Readers, be ruled by me ; and make Here a well-placed and wise mistake ; You must transpose the picture quite, And spell it wrong to read it right ; Read him for her, and her for him, And call the saint the seraphim.
Page 138 - Still keeping in the forward stream so long, Till a sweet whirlwind (striving to get out) Heaves her soft bosom, wanders round about, And makes a pretty earthquake in her breast, Till the fledged notes at length forsake their nest.