To The Name Above Every Name, The Name Of Jesus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIIHHJH HHHKLMMGGHHGNNOOPQPQ ARAIISIIHHQQKKOTOUUF FVVHHMMWWFFHHVVHHHHU UHHFFRRWWFFXXOOYFFLL HHXXXRXRLXZA2A2B2XXC 2D2XXXHHXE2E2XXHHVHH VHHLXHHXXHHE2E2F2F2X XG2FXHXH2H2HHHVXXHXX HHHHHHHHHHHI2I2HHHUU HHHHTIA2IXJ2J2XHHHHK 2K2HHHHXHXHHHYYHHIXI IH| I sing the Name which None can say | A |
| But touch t with An interiour Ray | A |
| The Name of our New Peace our Good | B |
| Our Blisse and Supernaturall Blood | C |
| The Name of All our Lives and Loves | D |
| Hearken And Help ye holy Doves | D |
| The high born Brood of Day you bright | E |
| Candidates of blissefull Light | E |
| The Heirs Elect of Love whose Names belong | F |
| Unto The everlasting life of Song | F |
| All ye wise Soules who in the wealthy Brest | G |
| Of This unbounded Name build your warm Nest | G |
| Awake My glory Soul if such thou be | H |
| And That fair Word at all referr to Thee | H |
| Awake and sing | I |
| And be All Wing | I |
| Bring hither thy whole Self and let me see | H |
| What of thy Parent Heaven yet speakes in thee | H |
| O thou art Poore | J |
| Of noble Powres I see | H |
| And full of nothing else but empty Me | H |
| Narrow and low and infinitely lesse | H |
| Then this Great mornings mighty Busynes | H |
| One little World or two | K |
| Alas will never doe | L |
| We must have store | M |
| Goe Soul out of thy Self and seek for More | M |
| Goe and request | G |
| Great Nature for the Key of her huge Chest | G |
| Of Heavns the self involving Sett of Sphears | H |
| Which dull mortality more Feeles then heares | H |
| Then rouse the nest | G |
| Of nimble Art and traverse round | N |
| The Aiery Shop of soul appeasing Sound | N |
| And beat a summons in the Same | O |
| All soveraign Name | O |
| To warn each severall kind | P |
| And shape of sweetnes Be they such | Q |
| As sigh with supple wind | P |
| Or answer Artfull Touch | Q |
| That they convene and come away | A |
| To wait at the love crowned Doores of | R |
| This Illustrious Day | A |
| Shall we dare This my Soul we l doe t and bring | I |
| No Other note for t but the Name we sing | I |
| Wake Lute and Harp | S |
| And every sweet lipp t Thing | I |
| That talkes with tunefull string | I |
| Start into life And leap with me | H |
| Into a hasty Fitt tun d Harmony | H |
| Nor must you think it much | Q |
| T obey my bolder touch | Q |
| I have Authority in Love s name to take you | K |
| And to the worke of Love this morning wake you | K |
| Wake In the Name | O |
| Of Him who never sleeps All Things that Are | T |
| Or what s the same | O |
| Are Musicall | U |
| Answer my Call | U |
| And come along | F |
| Help me to meditate mine Immortall Song | F |
| Come ye soft ministers of sweet sad mirth | V |
| Bring All your houshold stuffe of Heavn on earth | V |
| O you my Soul s most certain Wings | H |
| Complaining Pipes and prattling Strings | H |
| Bring All the store | M |
| Of Sweets you have And murmur that you have no more | M |
| Come n to part | W |
| Nature and Art | W |
| Come and come strong | F |
| To the conspiracy of our Spatious song | F |
| Bring All the Powres of Praise | H |
| Your Provinces of well united Worlds can raise | H |
| Bring All your Lutes and Harps of Heaven and Earth | V |
| What re cooperates to The common mirthe | V |
| Vessells of vocall Ioyes | H |
| Or You more noble Architects of Intellectuall Noise | H |
| Cymballs of Heav n or Humane sphears | H |
| Solliciters of Soules or Eares | H |
| And when you are come with All | U |
| That you can bring or we can call | U |
| O may you fix | H |
| For ever here and mix | H |
| Your selves into the long | F |
| And everlasting series of a deathlesse Song | F |
| Mix All your many Worlds Above | R |
| And loose them into One of Love | R |
| Chear thee my Heart | W |
| For Thou too hast thy Part | W |
| And Place in the Great Throng | F |
| Of This unbounded All imbracing Song | F |
| Powres of my Soul be Proud | X |
| And speake lowd | X |
| To All the dear bought Nations This Redeeming Name | O |
| And in the wealth of one Rich Word proclaim | O |
| New Similes to Nature | Y |
| May it be no wrong | F |
| Blest Heavns to you and your Superiour song | F |
| That we dark Sons of Dust and Sorrow | L |
| A while Dare borrow | L |
| The Name of Your Dilights and our Desires | H |
| And fitt it to so farr inferior Lyres | H |
| Our Murmurs have their Musick too | X |
| Ye mighty Orbes as well as you | X |
| Nor yeilds the noblest Nest | X |
| Of warbling Seraphim to the eares of Love | R |
| A choicer Lesson then the joyfull Brest | X |
| Of a poor panting Turtle Dove | R |
| And we low Wormes have leave to doe | L |
| The Same bright Busynes ye Third Heavens with you | X |
| Gentle Spirits doe not complain | Z |
| We will have care | A2 |
| To keep it fair | A2 |
| And send it back to you again | B2 |
| Come lovely Name Appeare from forth the Bright | X |
| Regions of peacefull Light | X |
| Look from thine own Illustrious Home | C2 |
| Fair King of Names and come | D2 |
| Leave All thy native Glories in their Georgeous Nest | X |
| And give thy Self a while The gracious Guest | X |
| Of humble Soules that seek to find | X |
| The hidden Sweets | H |
| Which man s heart meets | H |
| When Thou art Master of the Mind | X |
| Come lovely Name life of our hope | E2 |
| Lo we hold our Hearts wide ope | E2 |
| Unlock thy Cabinet of Day | X |
| Dearest Sweet and come away | X |
| Lo how the thirsty Lands | H |
| Gasp for thy Golden Showres with longstretch t Hands | H |
| Lo how the laboring Earth | V |
| That hopes to be | H |
| All Heaven by Thee | H |
| Leapes at thy Birth | V |
| The attending World to wait thy Rise | H |
| First turn d to eyes | H |
| And then not knowing what to doe | L |
| Turn d Them to Teares and spent Them too | X |
| Come Royall Name and pay the expence | H |
| Of all this Pretious Patience | H |
| O come away | X |
| And kill the Death of This Delay | X |
| O see so many Worlds of barren yeares | H |
| Melted and measur d out is Seas of Teares | H |
| O see The Weary liddes of wakefull Hope | E2 |
| Love s Eastern windowes All wide ope | E2 |
| With Curtains drawn | F2 |
| To catch The Day break of Thy Dawn | F2 |
| O dawn at last long look t for Day | X |
| Take thine own wings and come away | X |
| Lo where Aloft it comes It comes Among | G2 |
| The Conduct of Adoring Spirits that throng | F |
| Like diligent Bees And swarm about it | X |
| O they are wise | H |
| And know what Sweetes are suck t from out it | X |
| It is the Hive | H2 |
| By which they thrive | H2 |
| Where All their Hoard of Hony lyes | H |
| Lo where it comes upon The snowy Dove s | H |
| Soft Back And brings a Bosom big with Loves | H |
| Welcome to our dark world Thou | V |
| Womb of Day | X |
| Unfold thy fair Conceptions And display | X |
| The Birth of our Bright Ioyes | H |
| O thou compacted | X |
| Body of Blessings spirit of Soules extracted | X |
| O dissipate thy spicy Powres | H |
| Clowd of condensed sweets and break upon us | H |
| In balmy showrs | H |
| O fill our senses And take from us | H |
| All force of so Prophane a Fallacy | H |
| To think ought sweet but that which smells of Thee | H |
| Fair flowry Name In none but Thee | H |
| And Thy Nectareall Fragrancy | H |
| Hourly there meetes | H |
| An universall Synod of All sweets | H |
| By whom it is defined Thus | H |
| That no Perfume | I2 |
| For ever shall presume | I2 |
| To passe for Odoriferous | H |
| But such alone whose sacred Pedigree | H |
| Can prove it Self some kin sweet name to Thee | H |
| Sweet Name in Thy each Syllable | U |
| A Thousand Blest Arabias dwell | U |
| A Thousand Hills of Frankincense | H |
| Mountains of myrrh and Beds of species | H |
| And ten Thousand Paradises | H |
| The soul that tasts thee takes from thence | H |
| How many unknown Worlds there are | T |
| Of Comforts which Thou hast in keeping | I |
| How many Thousand Mercyes there | A2 |
| In Pitty s soft lap ly a sleeping | I |
| Happy he who has the art | X |
| To awake them | J2 |
| And to take them | J2 |
| Home and lodge them in his Heart | X |
| O that it were as it was wont to be | H |
| When thy old Freinds of Fire All full of Thee | H |
| Fought against Frowns with smiles gave Glorious chase | H |
| To Persecutions And against the Face | H |
| Of Death and feircest Dangers durst with Brave | K2 |
| And sober pace march on to meet A Grave | K2 |
| On their Bold Brests about the world they bore thee | H |
| And to the Teeth of Hell stood up to teach thee | H |
| In Center of their inmost Soules they wore thee | H |
| Where Rackes and Torments striv d in vain to reach thee | H |
| Little alas thought They | X |
| Who tore the Fair Brests of thy Freinds | H |
| Their Fury but made way | X |
| For Thee And serv d them in Thy glorious ends | H |
| What did Their weapons but with wider pores | H |
| Inlarge thy flaming brested Lovers | H |
| More freely to transpire | Y |
| That impatient Fire | Y |
| The Heart that hides Thee hardly covers | H |
| What did their Weapons but sett wide the Doores | H |
| For Thee Fair purple Doores of love s devising | I |
| The Ruby windowes which inrich t the East | X |
| Of Thy so oft repeated Rising | I |
| Each wound of Theirs was Thy new Morning | I |
| And reinthron d thee in thy Rosy Ne | H |
Richard Crashaw
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