 Scarce has she learnt to lisp the name Of martyr; yet she thinks it shame Life should so long play with that breath Which spent can buy so brave a death.  Poems of Richard Crashaw - Page 30by Richard Crashaw - 1887 - 85 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1896 - 588 pages
...arabesque. At six years old she too is inspired with dreams of glory ; she ' Thinks it shame Life should BO long play with that breath Which spent can buy so brave a death.' Taking with her a like-minded child-brother, Teresa sets out for the land of the Moors, ' that so,'... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Chivalry - 1826 - 330 pages
...of these lines of Crashaw, the friend of Cowley, who said, in allusion to her spirit of martyrdom, " She never undertook to know What death with love should have to do ; Nor has she e'er yet understood, ,* ' Why, to shew love, she should shed blood ; Yet, though she... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 412 pages
...men's apparel, and smell like Bucklersbury in simpling time. Id. Scarce had she learnt to ¡up a name Of martyr, yet she thinks it shame Life should so...that breath, Which spent can buy so brave a death. Crafhaw. They ramble not to learn the mode, How to be drest, or how to lisp abroad. Cltaveland. Apprise... | |
 | Alban Butler - Fathers of the church - 1845 - 574 pages
...this saint, celebrates the ardour of her holy love as follows : Scarce had she learn'd to lisp a name Of martyr, yet she thinks it shame Life should so...undertook to know What death with love should have to do : Nor has she e'er yet understood, Why to show love she should shed blood. Tet though she cannot tell... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - Engelse digkuns - 1858 - 384 pages
...And make His mansion in the mild And milky soul of a soft child. Scarce has she learnt to lisp a name Of martyr, yet she thinks it shame Life should so...undertook to know What death with love should have to do. Nor has she e'er yet understood Why, to show love, she should shed blood ; Yet, though she cannot tell... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - English poetry - 1858 - 398 pages
...And make His mansion in the mild And milky soul of a soft child. Scarce has she learnt to lisp a name Of martyr, yet she thinks it shame Life should so...that breath Which spent can buy so brave a death. 68 STEPS TO THE TEMPLE. She never undertook to know ' What death with love should have to do. Nor has... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Christian art and symbolism - 1863 - 544 pages
...Madre Santa Teresa de Gesn. Patroness of Spain. Oct. 17, 1582. " Scarce has she learnt to lisp the name Of martyr, yet she thinks it shame Life should so long play with that breath Which, spent, could buy so brave a death. She never undertook to show What death with love should have to doe : Yet,... | |
 | Alban Butler - Fathers of the church - 1866 - 574 pages
...this saint, celebrates the ardour of her holy love as follows : Scarce had she learn'd to lisp a name Of martyr, yet she thinks it shame Life should so...undertook to know What death with love should have to do : Nor has she e'er yet understood, Why to show love she should shed blood. Yet though she cannot tell... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Christian art and symbolism - 1866 - 532 pages
...Madre Santa Teresa de Gesu. Patroness of Spain. Oct. 17, 1582. " Scarce has she learnt to lisp the name Of martyr, yet she thinks it shame Life should so long play with that breath Which, spent, could buy so brave a death. She never undertook to show What death with love should have to doe ; Tet,... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - English poetry - 1872 - 576 pages
...see him take a priuate seat, Making his mansion in the mild And milky soul of a soft child. Scarse has she learn't to lisp the name 1 5 Of martyr ; yet...long play with that breath Which spent can buy so braue a death. She neuer vndertook to know What Death with Loue should haue to doe ; 20 Nor has she... | |
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