Steps to the temple sacred poems, with other delights of the muses / by Richard Crashaw ...

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Title
Steps to the temple sacred poems, with other delights of the muses / by Richard Crashaw ...
Author
Crashaw, Richard, 1613?-1649.
Publication
London :: Printed by T.W. for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop ...,
1646.
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Religious poetry -- Early works to 1800.
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"Steps to the temple sacred poems, with other delights of the muses / by Richard Crashaw ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34930.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2025.

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On the wounds of our crucified Lord.

O These wakefull wounds of thine! Are they Mouthes? or are they eyes? Be they Mouthes, or be they eyne, Each bleeding part some one supplies.
Lo! a mouth, whose full-bloom'd lips At two deare a rate are roses. Lo! a blood-shot eye! that weepes And many a cruell teare discloses.

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O thou that on this foot hast laid Many a kisse, and many a Teare, Now thou shal't have all repaid, Whatsoe're thy charges were.
This foot hath got a Mouth and lippes, To pay the sweet summe of thy kisses: To pay thy Teares, an Eye that weeps In stead of Teares Such Gems as this is.
The difference onely this appeares, (Nor can the change offend) The debt is paid in Ruby-Teares, Which thou in Pearles did'st lend.
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