Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.

- Richard Crashaw

A pillow for thee will I bring,Stuffed with down of angel's wing.

- Richard Crashaw

Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.

- Richard Crashaw

And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and so away.

- Richard Crashaw

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

- Richard Crashaw

And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.

- Richard Crashaw

All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, and thy pains sit bright on thee. All thy sorrows here shall shine and thy sufferings be divine; Tears shal…

- Richard Crashaw

Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .

- Richard Crashaw

Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, An…

- Richard Crashaw