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Steps to the Temple: Delights of the Muses, and Other Poems - Page 249
by Richard Crashaw - 1904 - 401 pages
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The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume 2

Richard Crashaw - 1873 - 562 pages
...thou complain Of a sweet and subtle pain ; Of intolerable ioyes ; Of a 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...
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The Church quarterly review, Volumes 96-97

1923 - 826 pages
...exercise their archerie. O how oft shalt thou complain Of a sweet & subtle Pain. Of intolerable Joyes ; Of a Death, in which who dyes Loves his death, and dyes...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...
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Poems of Richard Crashaw

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...
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English Poems, Volumes 1-2

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...
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English Poems, Volumes 1-2

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...
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The English Poems of Richard Crashaw

Richard Crashaw - 1901 - 282 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...
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Steps to the Temple: Delights of the Muses, and Other Poems

Richard Crashaw - English poetry - 1904 - 432 pages
...exercise their archerie. O how oft shalt thou complain Of a sweet & subtle PAIN. Of intolerable JOYES ; Of a DEATH, in which who dyes Loves his death, and dyes again. ~AncFwould for ever so be slain. And lives, & dyes ; and knowes not why To live, But that he thus may...
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The Mount of Vision: A Book of English Mystic Verse

Adeline Cashmore - Mysticism - 1910 - 192 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...
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The Religious Poems of Richard Crashaw

Richard Crashaw - 1914 - 152 pages
...death, and dies again,* e !„„..} 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...
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The Rosary Magazine, Volume 45

1914 - 758 pages
...dies Loves his death, and dies again, And would forever so be slain, And lives and dies, and knows not why To live, but that he thus may never leave to die. When, then, the soul has put under its evil inclinations, when the will is purified and sublimated...
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