Religion

Sions Sonets: Sonet 13

by Francis Quarles 1592–1644

From Divine Poems (1633), Sions Sonets

Religion

O Thou (my deare) whose sweets, all sweets ex-cell
From whom my fruits receive their tast, their smell
How can my thriving plants refuse to grow
Thus quickned with so sweet a Sun as thou?
How can my flowers, which thy Ewers nourish
With showers of living waters, choose but flourish?
O thou, the spring, from whence these waters burst.
Did ever any taste thy streames, and thurst?

AM I a Garden? May my flowers bee
So highly honour'd to be smelt by thee;
Inspire them with thy sacred breath, and then
Receive from them, thy borrowed breath agen,
Frequent thy Garden, whose rare fruit invites
Thy welcome presence, to his choise Delights;
Taste where thou list, and take thy full repaste,
Here's that wil please thy smel, thine eye, thy taste.

MLA

Quarles, Francis. “Sions Sonets: Sonet 13.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/576/.

Chicago

Quarles, Francis. “Sions Sonets: Sonet 13.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/576/.

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