Religion

Book II, 18: On Thamar and Ammon

by Francis Quarles 1592–1644

From Divine Fancies (1633), Book II

Religion

She must be lov'd; Then courted; and what more?
Enjoy'd; then hated; then expeld the dore:
Ammon must be discov'red; must obtaine
License to Feast; and then, be drunke; then slaine:
O what Repose is had in sinfull Breath,
Whose love, in hate; whose mirth cōcludes in death!

MLA

Quarles, Francis. “Book II, 18: On Thamar and Ammon.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/119/.

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Quarles, Francis. “Book II, 18: On Thamar and Ammon.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/119/.

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