(10 quotes found)
“O thou undaunted daughter of desires! / By all thy dower of lights and fires; / By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; / By all thy lives and deaths of love; / By thy large draughts of intellectual day.”
Richard Crashaw
“Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.”
Contributed by: Randi
“Farewell house, and farewell home! / She's for the Moors, and martyrdom.”
“Welcome, all wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span.”
“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.”
“Life, that dares send / A challenge to his end, / And when it comes say, `Welcome, friend!'”
“Two walking baths; two weeping motions;/ Portable, and compendious oceans.”
“It was Thy day, sweet! and did rise / Not from the East, but from Thine eyes.”
“Love, thou art absolute sole Lord Of life and death”
“The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.”
