Religion

Sions Elegies: Threnodia II, Eleg. 3

by Francis Quarles 1592–1644

From Divine Poems (1633), Sions Elegies

Religion

COnfused horror, and confounding shame,
Have blur'd the beauty, and renowned name
Of righteous Israel; Israels fruitfull land,
Entail'd by Heaven, with the usurping hand
Of uncontroled Gentiles, is laid waste,
And with the spoile so ruine is defac't;
The angry mouth of Iustice blowes the fires
Of hasty vengeance, whose quicke flame aspires,
With fury to that place, which heaven did sever,
For Iacob and his holy seed for ever;
No part, no secret angle of the Land,
Which beares no marke of heavens enraged hand.

MLA

Quarles, Francis. “Sions Elegies: Threnodia II, Eleg. 3.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/610/.

Chicago

Quarles, Francis. “Sions Elegies: Threnodia II, Eleg. 3.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/610/.

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