Crashaw

Famous quotes containing the word crashaw:

    “To these, whom Death again did wed,
    This grave’s the second Marriage-bed.”
    —Richard Crashaw (1613?–1649)

    “Welcome, all wonders in one night!
    Eternity shut in a span,
    Summer in winter, day in night,
    Heaven in earth, and God in man.
    Great Little One! Whose all-embracing birth
    Lifts earth to heaven, stoops heaven to earth.”
    —Richard Crashaw (1613?–1649)

    “And now where e’re he strayes
    Among the Galilaean mountains,
    Or more unwelcome wayes,
    Hee’s follow’d by two faithfull fountaines,
    Two walking Baths, two weeping motions;
    Portable and compendious Oceans.”
    —Richard Crashaw (1613?–1649)