StoryTitle("caps", "Upon the Book and Picture
of the Seraphical Saint Teresa") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O thou undaunted daughter of desires! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By all thy dower of lights and fires; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By all thy lives and deaths of love; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By thy large draughts of intellectual day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And by thy thirsts of love more large than they; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By all thy brim-fill'd bowls of fierce desire, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By thy last morning's draught of liquid fire; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By the full kingdom of that final kiss ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That seized thy parting soul, and seal'd thee His; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By all the Heav'n thou hast in Him ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(Fair sister of the seraphim!); ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By all of Him we have in thee; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Leave nothing of myself in me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let me so read thy life, that I ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unto all life of mine may die!", "") ?>
Poet("Richard Crashaw", "1613?–1649") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>