Religion

Sions Elegies: Threnodia I, Eleg. 13

by Francis Quarles 1592–1644

From Divine Poems (1633), Sions Elegies

Religion

NO humane power could no envious Art
Of mortall man, could thus subject my heart,
My glowing heart, to these imperious fires:
No earthly sorrow, but at length expires;
But these my Tyrant-torments doe extend
To infinites, nor having ease, nor end;
Loe, I the Pris'ner of the highest God,
Inthailed to the vengeance of his Rod,
Lie bound in fetters, that I cannot flie,
Nor yet endure his deadly stroakes, nor die:
My joyes are turn'd to sorrows, backt with feares,
And I (poore I) lie pickled up in teares.

MLA

Quarles, Francis. “Sions Elegies: Threnodia I, Eleg. 13.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/598/.

Chicago

Quarles, Francis. “Sions Elegies: Threnodia I, Eleg. 13.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/598/.

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