Richard Crashaw



Richard Crashaw (c. 1613 – 21 August 1649) English poet, styled "the divine," was part of the Seventeenth-century Metaphysical School of poets.

Quotes

 * Love's great artillery.
 * Prayer L18


 * The conscious water saw its God and blushed.
 * Epigrammatum sacrorum liber (1634). Translated by John Dryden from Crashaw's Latin original: "Nympha pudica Deum vidit, et erubuit (The modest Nymph saw the god, and blushed)", Complete works of Richard Crashaw (1872), edited by Alexander B. Grosart, vol. 2, p. 96.

To heaven hath a summer’s day.
 * A happy soul, that all the way
 * In Praise of Lessius’s Rule of Health, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Believe me, reader, can say more Than many a braver marble can,— “Here lies a truly honest man!”
 * The modest front of this small floor,
 * Epitaph upon Mr. Ashton, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.
 * Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life;
 * Steps to the Temple, To Our Lord upon the Water Made Wine; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 516.

Wishes for the Supposed Mistress

 * Quotes reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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

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

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

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

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