Steps to the Temple, To Our Lord upon the Water Made Wine; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 516.
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Richard Crashaw: Citations en anglais
“Sydneian showers
Of sweet discourse, whose powers
Can crown old Winter’s head with flowers.”
Wishes for the Supposed Mistress
“Life that dares send
A challenge to his end,
And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!”
Wishes for the Supposed Mistress
“Whoe’er she be,
That not impossible she,
That shall command my heart and me.”
Wishes for the Supposed Mistress
“Where’er she lie,
Locked up from mortal eye,
In shady leaves of destiny.”
Wishes for the Supposed Mistress
Epitaph upon Mr. Ashton, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.”
Wishes for the Supposed Mistress
“A happy soul, that all the way
To heaven hath a summer’s day.”
In Praise of Lessius’s Rule of Health, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“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.
