Crashaw

American  

[krash-aw] / ˈkræʃ ɔ /

noun

1. Richard, 1613–49, English poet.

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Crashaw British  

/ ˈkræʃɔː /

noun

1. Richard. 1613–49, English religious poet, noted esp for the Steps to the Temple (1646)

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Example Sentences

Being a collector of Phelpsiana, I look out for copies of those first three Grove titles, and at Powell’s I discovered two of them: “The Verse in English of Richard Crashaw” and “Selected Writings of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn.”

From Washington Post

Mr Crashaw said it was not about preventing visitors and residents from accessing the city centre, but to do with improving air quality and cutting congestion.

From BBC

The American poet is based in Edinburgh and his first collection, Tomorrow, We Will Live Here, won the 2009 Crashaw Prize.

From The Guardian

But these services were not excessively long and were divided from each other by periods of sleep by night and of work, or study, or meditation by day, after the manner which Crashaw inimitably set forth in his Description of a Religious House and Condition of Life: A hasty portion of prescribèd sleep; Obedient slumbers, that can wake and weep, And sing, and sigh, and work, and sleep again; Still rolling a round sphere of still-returning pain.

From Project Gutenberg

A woman for angelical height of speculation, for masculine courage of performance, more than a woman," wrote the old English poet, Richard Crashaw, whose "Flaming Heart" is touched with her own potency: "Oh thou undaunted daughter of desires!

From Project Gutenberg