15323. Crashaw, Richard. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996

The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.


NUMBER:	15323
QUOTATION:	Runs to and fro, complaining his sweet cares Because those pretious mysteries that dwell In musick’s ravish’t soule hee dare not tell, But whisper to the world: thus doe they vary Each string his Note, as if they meant to carry Their Masters blest soule (snatcht out at his Eares By a strong Extasy) through all the sphaeres Of Musicks heaven; and seat it there on high In th’ Empyrum of pure Harmony.
ATTRIBUTION:	Richard Crashaw (1613?–1649), British poet. Music’s Duel (l. 142–150). . . Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose, Vols. I–II. Vol. I: 1600–1660; Vol. II: 1660–1700. Helen C. White, Ruth C. Wallerstein, and Ricardo Quintana, eds. (1951, 1952) The Macmillan Company.