Poetry Codex

Metaphysical & Cavalier

Richard Crashaw

1613–1649

Richard Crashaw (1613–1649) was an English metaphysical poet known for the ecstatic, ornate devotion of his sacred verse.

A convert to Catholicism, he collected his poems as Steps to the Temple (1646), consciously following George Herbert.

Poems (143)

  1. The Weeper.
  2. The Teare.
  3. Act. 8 On the baptized Aethiopian.
  4. On the miracle of multiplyed loaves.
  5. Vpon the Sepulchre of our Lord.
  6. The Widowes Mites.
  7. Luk. 15. On the Prodigall.
  8. On the still surviving markes of our Saviours wounds.
  9. Act. 5. The sicke implore St. Peter's shadow.
  10. Mar. 7. The dumbe healed, and the people enjoyned silence.
  11. Mat. 28. Come see the place where the Lord lay.
  12. To Pontius washing his hands.
  13. To the Infant Martyrs.
  14. On the Miracle of Loaves.
  15. Marke 4. Why are yee afraid, O yee of little faith?
  16. On the Blessed Virgins bashfulnesse.
  17. Vpon Lazarus his Teares.
  18. Two went up into the Temple to pray.
  19. Vpon the Asse that bore our Saviour.
  20. Matthew 8. I am not worthy that thou should'st come under my roofe.
  21. Vpon the Powder Day.
  22. I am the Doore.
  23. Matthew. 10. The blind cured by the word of our Saviour.
  24. Matthew. 27. And he answered them nothing.
  25. To our Lord, upon the Water made Wine.
  26. Matthew. 22. Neither durst any man from that Day aske him any more Questions.
  27. Vpon our Saviours Tombe wherein never man was laid.
  28. It is better to go into Heaven with one eye, &c.
  29. Luk. 11. Vpon the dumbe Devill cast out, and the slanderous Iewes put to silence.
  30. Luke 10. And a certaine Priest comming that way looked on him and passed by.
  31. Luke 11. Blessed be the paps which Thou hast sucked.
  32. To Pontius washing his blood-stained hands.
  33. Matthew 23. Yee build the Sepulchres of the Prophets.
  34. Vpon the Infant Martyrs.
  35. Joh. 16. Verily I say unto you, yee shall weep and lament.
  36. Joh. 15. Vpon our Lords last comfortable discourse with his Disciples.
  37. Luke 16. Dives asking a drop.
  38. Marke 12. (Give to Caesar —) (And to God —)
  39. But now they have seen, and hated.
  40. Vpon the Thornes taken downe from our Lords head bloody.
  41. Luc. 7. She began to wash his feet with teares and wipe them with the haires of her head.
  42. On St. Peter cutting of Malchus his eare.
  43. Joh. 3. But men loved darknesse rather then Light.
  44. Act. 21. I am ready not onely to be bound but to dye.
  45. On St. Peter casting away his Nets at our Saviours call.
  46. Our Lord in his Circumcision to his Father.
  47. On the wounds of our crucified Lord.
  48. On our crucified Lord Naked, and bloody.
  49. Easter day.
  50. On the bleeding wounds of our crucified Lord.
  51. Sampson to his Dalilah.
  52. Psalme 23.
  53. Psalme 137.
  54. A Hymne of the Nativity, sung by the Shepheards.
  55. Vpon the Death of a Gentleman.
  56. Vpon the Death of Mr. Herrys.
  57. Vpon the Death of the most desired Mr. Herrys.
  58. Another.
  59. His Epitaph.
  60. An Epitaph Vpon Husband and Wife, which died, and were buried together.
  61. An Epitaph. Vpon Doctor Brooke.
  62. Vpon Mr. Staninough's Death.
  63. Vpon the Duke of Yorke his Birth A Panegyricke.
  64. Vpon Ford's two Tragedyes Loves Sacrifice and The Broken Heart.
  65. On a foule Morning, being then to take a journey.
  66. Vpon the faire Ethiopian sent to a Gentlewoman.
  67. On Marriage.
  68. To the Morning. Satisfaction for sleepe.
  69. Loves Horoscope.
  70. Sospetto d' Herode. Libro Primo.
  71. On a prayer booke sent to Mrs. M. R.
  72. On Mr. G. Herberts booke intituled the Temple of Sacred Poem, sent to a Gentlewoman.
  73. In memory of the Vertuous and Learned Lady Madre de Teresa that sought an early Martyrdome.
  74. An Apologie for the precedent Hymne.
  75. On a Treatise of Charity.
  76. In Picturam Reverendissimi Episcopi, D. Andrews.
  77. On the Assumption.
  78. Epitaphium in Dominum Herrisium.
  79. An Himne for the Circumcision day of our Lord.
  80. On Hope, By way of Question and Answer, betweene A. Cowley, and R. Crashaw.
  81. Musicks Duell.
  82. Principi recèns natae omen maternae indolis.
  83. Out of Virgil, In the praise of the Spring.
  84. With a Picture sent to a Friend.
  85. In praise of Lessius his rule of health.
  86. The beginning of Helidorus.
  87. Out of the Greeke Cupid's Cryer.
  88. Vpon Venus putting on Mars his Armes.
  89. Vpon the same.
  90. In Senerissimae Reginae partum hyemalem.
  91. Vpon Bishop Andrewes his Picture before his Sermons.
  92. Ad Reginam.
  93. Out of Martiall.
  94. Out of the Italian. A Song.
  95. Out of the Italian.
  96. Out of the Italian.
  97. In faciem Augustiff. Regis à morbillis integram.
  98. On the Frontispiece of Isaacsons Chronologie explained.
  99. Or Thus.
  100. An Epitaph Vpon Mr. Ashton a conformable Citizen.
  101. Rex Redux.
  102. Out of Catullus,
  103. Ad Principem nondum natum.
  104. Wishes. To his (supposed) Mistresse.
  105. Sancta Maria Dolorum, or the Mother of Sorrows
  106. The Office of the Holy Crosse
  107. Vexilla Regis: the Hymn of the Holy Crosse
  108. To the Name above every Name, the Name of Iesus: a Hymn
  109. In the Glorious Epiphanie of our Lord God: a Hymn sung as by the Three Kings
  110. To the Queen's Maiesty
  111. The Hymn of Sainte Thomas, in Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
  112. Lauda Sion Salvatorem: the Hymn for the Blessed Sacrament
  113. To the same Party: Councel concerning her Choise
  114. Description of a Religious House and Condition of Life (out of Barclay)
  115. The Flaming Heart: vpon the Book and Picture of the seraphical Saint Teresa
  116. A Song of Divine Love
  117. Dies Irae, Dies Illa: the Hymn of the Church, in meditation of the Day of Judgment
  118. Charitas Nimia, or the Dear Bargain
  119. S. Maria Maior: the Himn, O gloriosa Domina
  120. Mary seeking Jesus when lost
  121. The Wounds of the Lord Jesus
  122. On ye Gunpowder-Treason (I)
  123. Upon the Gunpowder-Treason (II)
  124. Upon the Gunpowder-Treason (III)
  125. To the Queen: an Apologie for the length of the following Panegyrick
  126. Vpon two greene Apricockes sent to Cowley by Sir Crashaw
  127. Alexias: The First Elegie
  128. Alexias: The Second Elegie
  129. Alexias: The Third Elegie
  130. Vpon the King's Coronation
  131. Vpon the King's Coronation (II)
  132. Vpon the Birth of the Princesse Elizabeth
  133. Vpon a Gnatt burnt in a Candle
  134. From Petronius
  135. From Horace
  136. Ex Euphormione
  137. An Elegy vpon the Death of Mr. Stanninow, Fellow of Queene's Colledge
  138. Vpon the Death of a Freind
  139. An Elegie on the Death of Dr. Porter
  140. Against Irresolution and Delay in Matters of Religion
  141. On the water of our Lord's baptisme
  142. Life for death
  143. On the Divine love: after H. Hugo

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