Amorous languishments, luminous trances; Sights which are not seen with eyes; Spiritual and soul-piercing glances, Whose pure and subtle lightning flies Home to the heart, and sets the house on fire And melts it down in sweet desire: Yet does not stay... The Religious Poems of Richard Crashaw - Page 114by Richard Crashaw - 1914 - 136 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...: Spiritual and soul-piercing glances, Whose pure and subtle lightning flies Home to the heart, aud sets the house on fire ; And melts it down in sweet desire : Yet doth not stay To ask the window's leave, to pass that way. Delicious deaths, soft exhalations Of soul... | |
| 1820 - 394 pages
...desire: Yet doth not stay To ask the window's leave, to pass that way. Delicious deaths, soft exhalations Of soul; dear and divine annihilations ; A thousand unknown rites Of joys, and rarified delights. An hundred thousand loves and graces, And many a mystick thing, Which the divine... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1823 - 580 pages
...Spiritual and soul-piercing glances, Whose pure and subtile lightning flies Home to the heart ; Yet doth not stay To ask the windows leave to pass that way ; Delicious deaths, soft exhalations Of soul, dear and divine annihilations; A thousand unknown rites Of joys, and rarified delights, An... | |
| Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1823 - 510 pages
...soul-piercing glances, Whose pure and subtile lightning flie* Home to the heart ; Yet doth not stay Tp ask the windows leave to pass that way; Delicious deaths, soft exhalations , • Of soul, dear and divine annihilations ; A thousand unknown rites Of joys, and ratified delights,... | |
| Books - 1820 - 398 pages
...are not seen with eyes ; Spiritual and soul-piercing glances, Whose pure and subtle lightning flies Home to the heart, and sets the house on fire ; And melts it down in sweet desire : Yet doth not stay To ask the windows leave, to pass that way. Delicious deaths, soft exhalations Of soul... | |
| Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 442 pages
...are not seen with eyes, Spiritual and soul-piercing glances, Whose pure and subtle lightning flies Home to the heart, and sets the house on fire, And melts it down in sweet desire, Yet doth not stay To ask the window's leave to pass that way ; Delicious deaths, soft exhalations Of soul,... | |
| Richard Cattermole - Christian poetry, English - 1836 - 436 pages
...are not seen with eyes, Spiritual and soul-piercing glances, Whose pure and subtle lightning flies Home to the heart, and sets the house on fire, '. And melts it down in sweet desire, Yet doth not stay To ask the window's leave to pass that way ; Delicious deaths, soft exhalations Of soul,... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...are not seen with eyes, Spirituall, and soule piereing glances, Whose pure and subtle lightning flyes Home to the heart, and sets the house on fire, And melts it downe in sweet desire ; Yet doth not stay To aske the windowes leave to passe that way. Delicious deaths,... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...are not seen with eyes, Spirituall, and soule piereing glances. Whose pure and subtle lightning flyes Home to the heart, and sets the house on fire. And melts it downe in sweet desire ; Yet doth not stay To aske the windowes leave to passe that way. Delicious deaths,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Europe - 1839 - 238 pages
...desperately in love as you are now ; and went through all the ' Delicious deaths, soft exhalations Of soul ; dear and divine annihilations, A thousand unknown rites Of joys, and rarified delights.' I adored and was rejected. ' You are in love with certain attributes,' said the... | |
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