The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I

Volume 1 — AN EPITAPH VPON DOCTOR BROOKE.[75]

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MARY SEEKING JESUS WHEN LOST.THE WOUNDS OF THE LORD JESUS.ON YE GUNPOWDER-TREASON.[59]

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MUSICK'S DUELL.[61]THE PRAISE OF THE SPRING:WITH A PICTURE SENT TO A FRIEND.[63]IN PRAISE OF LESSIUS'S RULE OF HEALTH.[64]THE BEGINNING OF HELIODORUS.[65]CUPID'S CRYER:VPON BISHOP ANDREWS' PICTURE BEFORE HIS SERMONS.[67]VPON THE DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN.[68]VPON THE DEATH OF MR. HERRYS.[69]VPON THE DEATH OF THE MOST DESIRED MR. HERRYS.[70]ANOTHER.[71]HIS EPITAPH.[72]AN EPITAPH VPON A YOVNG MARRIED COVPLE DEATH'S LECTVRE AND THE FVNERAL OF A YOVNG GENTLEMAN.[74]AN EPITAPH VPON DOCTOR BROOKE.[75]ON A FOULE MORNING, BEING THEN TO TAKE A JOURNEY.[76]TO THE MORNING:LOVE'S HOROSCOPE.[78]A SONG:OUT OF THE ITALIAN.OUT OF THE ITALIAN.VPON THE FRONTISPEECE OF MR. ISAACKSON'S CHRONOLOGIE.[81]ON THE FRONTISPIECE OF ISAACSON'S CHRONOLOGIE EXPLAINED.AN EPITAPH VPON MR. ASHTON,OUT OF CATULLUS.[83]WISHES.TO THE QUEEN:TO THE QUEEN,VPON TWO GREENE APRICOCKES SENT TO COWLEY BY SIR CRASHAW.[87]ALEXIAS:

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UPON THE KING'S CORONATION.[89]UPON THE KING'S CORONATION.VPON THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCESSE ELIZABETH.[90]VPON A GNATT BURNT IN A CANDLE.FROM PETRONIUS.[91]FROM HORACE.EX EUPHORMIONE.AN ELEGY VPON THE DEATH OF MR. STANNINOW,UPON THE DEATH OF A FREIND.AN ELEGIE ON THE DEATH OF DR. PORTER.[93]VERSE-LETTER TO THE COUNTESS OF DENBIGH AGAINST IRRESOLUTION AND DELAY IN MATTERS OF RELIGION.From 'Carmen Deo Nostro' (1652).

AN EPITAPH VPON DOCTOR BROOKE.[75]

A Brooke, whose streame so great, so good,1 Was lov'd, was honour'd, as a flood: Whose bankes the Muses dwelt upon, More than their owne Helicon; Here at length, hath gladly found5 A quiet passage under ground; Meane while his lovèd bankes, now dry The Muses with their teares supply.

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Note 1 · Appeared originally in 'Steps' of 1646 (p. 40): was reprinted in 1648 'Delights' (p. 28) and 1670 (p. 95). Our text is that of 1648; but all

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