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Steps to the Temple: Delights of the Muses, and Other Poems - Page 269
by Richard Crashaw - 1904 - 401 pages
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From Milton to Johnson

Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 504 pages
...dies, and knows not why To live, but that he still may die ! How kindly will thy gentle heart Kiss the sweetly-killing dart ! And close in his embraces keep Those delicious wounds, that weep Balsam, to heal themselves with thus, When these thy deaths, so numerous, Shall all at once die into...
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English Literature: From Milton to Johnson, by Edmund Goose

Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 512 pages
...dies, and knows not why To live, but that he still may die ! How kindly will thy gentle heart Kiss the sweetly-killing dart ! And close in his embraces keep Those delicious wounds, that weep Balsam, to heal themselves with thus, When these thy deaths, so numerous, Shall all at once die into...
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The Book of Elizabethan Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1907 - 892 pages
...and dies, and knows not why To live, but that he still may die! How kindly will thy gentle heart Kiss the sweetly-killing dart! And close in his embraces keep Those delicious wounds, that weep Balsam, to heal themselves with thus, When these thy deaths, so numerous, Shall all at once die into...
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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 - Poetry, religious - 1914 - 158 pages
...again, .j «K And would for ever so be slain. X ts * '-f jL u / ts ' ' \ And lives, and dfes ; and knows not why . To live, but that he thus may never leave to die. r^'"*'*' How kindly will thy gentle heart 105 Kiss the sweetly-killing dart, \ And close in his...
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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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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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Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century, Donne to Butler

Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - Poetry - 1921 - 316 pages
...The fair'st & first-born sons of fire Blest SERAPHIM, shall leave their quire O how oft shalt them complain Of a sweet & subtle PAIN ; Of intolerable...will thy gentle HEART Kisse the sweetly-killing DART 1 And close in his embraces keep Those delicious Wounds, that weep Balsom to heal themselves with....
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The Catholic Tradition in English Literature

George Carver - American literature - 1926 - 504 pages
...1OO 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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The East & the West: A Quarterly Review for the Study of ..., Volume 24

1926 - 420 pages
...first-born sons of fire. Blest seraphim shall leave their quire. How kindly will thy gentle heart Kiss the sweetly-killing dart, And close in his embraces keep Those delicious wounds. ..." II. Francis' foreign missionary journey to Egypt stands out in clearer outline than that earlier...
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