Death & Dying

Funerall Elegies: Eleg. 5

by Francis Quarles 1592–1644

From Divine Poems (1633), Funerall Elegies

Death & Dying

ENvie now burst with joy, and let thine eyes
Strut forth with fatnesse: let thy collops rise
Pampred and plump: Feed full for many yeares
Vpon our losse: Be drunken with our teares:
For he is dead, whose soule did never cease
To crosse and violate your malitious peace:
He's dead; but in his death hath overthrowne
More vices, than his happy life had done:
In life he taught to dye; and he did give
In death, a great example how to live:
Though he be gone, his fame is left behinde:
Now leave thy laughing Envie, and be pin'd.

MLA

Quarles, Francis. “Funerall Elegies: Eleg. 5.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/676/.

Chicago

Quarles, Francis. “Funerall Elegies: Eleg. 5.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/676/.

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