The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume IICrashaw, Richard
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The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II
Crashaw, Richard
English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700
Dulcis doctaque vanitas.
Aurae filia perfidae;
Et risus facilis parens. 130
Tantum gutta superbior,
Fortunatius et lutum.
Sum fluxae pretium spei;
Una ex Hesperidum insulis.
Formae pyxis, amantium 135
Clare caecus ocellulus;
Vanae et cor leve gloriae.
Sum caecae speculum Deae,
Sum Fortunae ego tessera,
Quam dat militibus suis; 140
Sum Fortunae ego symbolum,
Quo sancit fragilem fidem
Cum mortalibus ebriis,
Obsignatque tabellulas.
Sum blandum, petulans, vagum, 145
Pulchrum, purpureum, et decens,
Comptum, floridulum, et recens,
Distinctum nivibus, rosis,
Undis, ignibus, aere,
Pictum, gemmeum, et aureum, 150
O sum, scilicet, ô NIHIL.
Si piget, et longam traxisse in taedia pompam
Vivax, et nimium Bulla videtur anus:
Tolle tuos oculos pensum leve defluet, illam
Parca metet facili non operosa manu. 155
Vixit adhuc. Cur vixit? adhuc tu nempe legebas.
Nempe fuit tempus tum potuisse mori?
NOTE.
A collation of the 'Bulla' with the Tanner MS. corrects the
punctuation of the original and subsequent printed texts, and
specially puts right in the last line 'Nempe' for 'Tempe,' so long
retained. In the fourth line from close the printed texts read
'desinet' for 'defluet.' Nothing else noticeable. G.
TRANSLATION. THE BUBBLE. [TO REV. DR. LANY.]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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