Death & Dying

Funerall Elegies: Eleg. 1

by Francis Quarles 1592–1644

From Divine Poems (1633), Funerall Elegies

Death & Dying

All you whose eies would learn to weepe, draw neere,
And heare, what none, without full teares, and hear
Come marble eyes, as marble as your hearts,
I'le teach you how to weepe a teare in parts;
And you false eyes, that never yet, let fall
A teare in earnest, come, and now ye shall
Send forth salt fountaines of the truest griefe,
That ever sought to Language, for reliefe:
But you, you tender eyes, that cannot beare
An Elegie, wept forth, without a teare.
I warne you hence; or, at the most, passe by,
Lest while you stay, you soone dissolve, and dye.

MLA

Quarles, Francis. “Funerall Elegies: Eleg. 1.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/672/.

Chicago

Quarles, Francis. “Funerall Elegies: Eleg. 1.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/672/.

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