Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By Richard Crashaw (1613?1640)Upon the Book and Picture of the seraphical Saint Teresa
An Appendix to “The Flaming Heart” 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, | 5 |
And by thy thirsts of love more large than they; | |
By all thy brim-filled bowls of fierce desire, | |
By thy last morning’s draught of liquid fire; | |
By the full kingdom of that final kiss | |
That seized thy parting soul, and sealed thee His; | 10 |
By all the heav’n thou hast in Him | |
(Fair sister of the seraphim!), | |
By all of Him we have in thee, | |
Leave nothing of myself in me. | |
Let me so read thy life, that I | 15 |
Unto all life of mine may die. | |