Richard Crashaw

Here you will find the Poem The Recommendation of poet Richard Crashaw

The Recommendation

These houres, and that which hovers o?re my End, 
Into thy hands, and hart, lord, I commend. 
 
Take Both to Thine Account, that I and mine 
In that Hour, and in these, may be all thine. 
 
That as I dedicate my devoutest Breath 
To make a kind of Life for my lord?s Death, 
 
So from his living, and life-giving Death, 
My dying Life may draw a new, and never fleeting Breath.