Religion

Sions Elegies: Threnodia III, Eleg. 4

by Francis Quarles 1592–1644

From Divine Poems (1633), Sions Elegies

Religion

DIsturbed Lyons are appeas'd with blood,
And ravenous Beares are milde, not wanting food,
But heaven (ah heaven!) will not implored be:
Lyons, and Beares are not so fierce as Hee:
His direfull vengeance (which no meane confines)
Hath crost the thriving of my best designes;
His hand hath spoild me, that erewhile advanc't me
Brought in my foes, possest my friends against me;
His Bow is bent, his forked Rovers flie
Like darted haile-stones from the darkned skie,
Shot from a hand that cannot erre, they be
Transfixed in no other marke, but me.

MLA

Quarles, Francis. “Sions Elegies: Threnodia III, Eleg. 4.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/632/.

Chicago

Quarles, Francis. “Sions Elegies: Threnodia III, Eleg. 4.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/632/.

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