Quotes by Richard Crashaw

“O thou undaunted daughter of desires! / By all thy dower of lights and fires; / By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; / By all thy lives and deaths of love; / By thy large draughts of intellectual day.”

“Farewell house, and farewell home! / Shes for the Moors, and martyrdom.”

“Welcome, all wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span.”

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

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

“Two walking baths; two weeping motions;/ Portable, and compendious oceans.”

“It was Thy day, sweet! and did rise / Not from the East, but from Thine eyes.”

“Love, thou art absolute sole Lord Of life and death”

“The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.”

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

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