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Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)

Divine Epigrams: Samson to his Delilah


              1Could not once blinding me, cruel, suffice?
              2When first I look'd on thee, I lost mine eyes.

Notes

1] First published in Steps to the Temple, 1646. Some of the epithets were revised in the enlarged edition of 1648, and in Carmen Deo Nostro (1652). There are also earlier Latin versions.


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (1646.) Facs. edn.: Scolar Press, 1970. PR 3386 A75 1970 ROBA.
First publication date: 1646
RPO poem editor: N. J. Endicott
RP edition: 3RP 1.337.
Recent editing: 4:2002/2/12

Rhyme: aa


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