Sunday, June 18, 2023

Richard Crashaw


Stained glass window of Richard Crashaw (1613?-1649) top image



Out of Catullus
Come and let us live my Deare, 
Let us love and never feare, 
What the sowrest Fathers say: 
Brightest Sol that dies to day 
Lives againe as blithe to morrow, 
But if we darke sons of sorrow 
Set; o then, how long a Night 
Shuts the Eyes of our short light! 
Then let amorous kisses dwell 
On our lips, begin and tell 
A Thousand, and a Hundred, score 
An Hundred, and a Thousand more, 
Till another Thousand smother 
That, and that wipe of another. 
Thus at last when we have numbred 
Many a Thousand, many a Hundred; 
Wee’l confound the reckoning quite, 
And lose our selves in wild delight: 
While our joyes so multiply, 
As shall mocke the envious eye. 

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