Richard Crashaw
1613–1649
Best-known poems
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The Nightingale’s Song
From “Music’s Duel”
NOW westward Sol had spent the richest beams
Of noon’s high glory, when, hard by the streams …
All poems (10)
- A Hymn to the Name and Honourof the Admirable Saint TeresaLove, thou are absolute, sole Lord
- An Epitaph upon Husband and WifeTo these whom death again did wed
- BriefsWater Turned INTO WINE
- Christ CrucifiedThy restless feet now cannot go
- The Nightingale’s SongFrom “Music’s Duel”
- The Weeperhail, sister springs,
- Upon the Book and Picture of theSeraphical Saint TeresaO THOU undaunted daughter of desires!
- Verses from the Shepherds' HymnWe saw Thee in Thy balmy nest,
- Wishes for the Supposed MistressWhoe’er she be,
- Wishes to His Supposed MistressWhoe'er she be—