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Richard Crashaw

1616 AD — 1650 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Epigram
Wishes to his Supposed Mistress
In Praise of Lessius's Rule of Health
Epitaph upon Mr
Page 361 · printed citation: Richard Crashaw (1616-1650)
Printed page 247 · quotation 8 · Richard Crashaw · Wishes
Printed page 347 · quotation 25 · Richard Crashaw · Wishes to his (supposed) Mistress
Complete signed selection 171; printed byline: Richard Crashaw; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907

Archive entries

01c. 1633 AD

The conscious water saw its God and blushed.

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02c. 1633 AD

Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she, That shall command my heart and me.

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03c. 1633 AD

Where'er she lie, Locked up from mortal eye, In shady leaves of destiny.

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04c. 1633 AD

Days that need borrow No part of their good morrow From a fore-spent night of sorrow.

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05c. 1633 AD

Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!

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06c. 1633 AD

Sydneian showers Of sweet discourse, whose powers Can crown old Winter's head with flowers.

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07c. 1633 AD

A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day.

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08c. 1633 AD

The modest front of this small floor, Believe me, reader, can say more Than many a braver marble can,— "Here lies a truly honest man!"

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09Undated

Nympha pudica Deum vidit, et erubuit. (The modest Nymph saw her God and blushed.) The conscious water saw its God and blushed.

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10Undated

Eyes, that displaces The neighbor diamond, and out-faces That sun-shine by their own sweet graces.

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11Undated

Tresses, that wear Jewels, but to declare How much themselves more precious are.

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12Undated

There is no storm but this Of your own cowardice That braves you out; You are the storm that mocks Yourself; you are the rocks Of your own doubt; Besides this fear of danger there's no danger here And he that here fears danger does deserve his fear.

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13Undated

And when life's sweet fable ends,Soul and body part like friends;No quarrels, murmurs, no delay;A kiss, a sigh, and so away.

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14Undated

Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag the other to pray.

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