Richard Crashaw
Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649) was an English metaphysical poet and Catholic convert. His religious poetry — "A Hymn to Saint Teresa" — is among the most ecstatic in Eng…
"See here an easy feast that knows no wound, That under hunger's teeth will needs be sound; A subtle harvest of unbounded bread, What would ye more? He"
"LOVE, thou are absolute, sole Lord Of life and death. To prove the word, We'll now appeal to none of all Those thy old soldiers, great and tall, Ripe"
"Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life, Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of thy reign, Distills from thence the tears of wrath and strife, An"
"The world's light shines, shine as it will, The world will love its darkness still. I doubt though when the world's in hell, It will not love its dark"
"I sing the Name which None can say But touch’t with An interiour Ray: The Name of our New Peace; our Good: Our Blisse: and Supernaturall Blood: The Na"