Religion

Sions Elegies: Threnodia I, Eleg. 19

by Francis Quarles 1592–1644

From Divine Poems (1633), Sions Elegies

Religion

TVrne where I list, new cause of woe presents
My poore distracted soule with new laments;
Where shall I turne? shall I implore my friends?
Ah, summer friendship, with the Summer ends;
In vaine to them my groanes, in vaine my teares,
For harvest friends can finde no winter eares;
Or shall I call my sacred Priests for aid?
Alas! my pined Priests are all betraid
To Death, and Famine; in the streets they cryed
For bread, & whilst they sought for bread, they died
Vengeance could never strike so hard a blow,
As when she sends an unlamented woe.

MLA

Quarles, Francis. “Sions Elegies: Threnodia I, Eleg. 19.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/604/.

Chicago

Quarles, Francis. “Sions Elegies: Threnodia I, Eleg. 19.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/604/.

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