StoryTitle("caps", "The Weeper") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hail, sister springs,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Parents of silver-footed rills!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ever bubbling things,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thawing crystal, snowy hills!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Still spending, never spent; I mean", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Thy fair eyes, sweet Magdalene.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Heavens thy fair eyes be;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heavens of ever-falling stars;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2SQ", "", "'Tis seed-time still with thee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And stars thou sow'st whose harvest dares", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Promise the earth to countershine", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Whatever makes Heaven's forehead fine.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Every morn from hence", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A brisk cherub something sips", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whose soft influence", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Adds sweetness to his sweetest lips;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Then to his music: and his song", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Tastes of this breakfast all day long.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When some new bright guest", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Takes up among the stars a room,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And Heaven will make a feast,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Angels with their bottles come,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And draw from these full eyes of thine", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Their Master's water, their own wine.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The dew no more will weep", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The primrose's pale cheek to deck;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The dew no more will sleep", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nuzzled in the lily's neck:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Much rather would it tremble here,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And leave them both to be thy tear.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When sorrow would be seen", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In her brightest majesty,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "—For she is a Queen—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then is she drest by none but thee:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Then and only then she wears", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Her richest pearls—I mean thy tears.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not in the evening's eyes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When they red with weeping are", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For the Sun that dies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sits Sorrow with a face so fair.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Nowhere but here did ever meet", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sweetness so sad, sadness so sweet.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Does the night arise?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Still thy tears do fall and fall.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Does night lose her eyes?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Still the fountain weeps for all.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Let day and night do what they will,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Thou hast thy task, thou weepest still.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not So long she lived", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will thy tomb report of thee;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But So long she grieved:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus must we date thy memory.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Others by days, by months, by years,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Measure their ages, thou by tears.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Say, ye bright brothers,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fugitive sons of those fair eyes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Your fruitful mothers,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What make you here? What hopes can 'tice", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "You to be born? What cause can borrow", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "You from those nests of noble sorrow?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whither away so fast?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For sure the sordid earth", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Your sweetness cannot taste,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor does the dust deserve your birth.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sweet, whither haste you then? O say,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Why you trip so fast away?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We go not to seek", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The darlings of Aurora's bed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The rose's modest cheek,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor the violet's humble head.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "No such thing: we go to meet", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "A worthier object—our Lord's feet.", "") ?>
Poet("Richard Crashaw", "1613?–1649") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>