Death & Dying

Funerall Elegies: Eleg. 11

by Francis Quarles 1592–1644

From Divine Poems (1633), Funerall Elegies

Death & Dying

LOoke how the body of heavens greater light
Iniches each beholder with his bright
And glorious rayes, untill the envious West
Too greedy to enjoy so faire a guest,
Calls him to bed, where ravisht from our sight,
He leaves us to the solemne frownes of night;
Even so our Sun in his harmonious spheare
Enlightned every eye, rapt every eare,
Till in the earely sunset of his yeares
He dyde, and left us that survive, in teares;
And (like the Sun) in spight of death and fate,
He seemed greatest in his lowest state.

MLA

Quarles, Francis. “Funerall Elegies: Eleg. 11.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/682/.

Chicago

Quarles, Francis. “Funerall Elegies: Eleg. 11.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/682/.

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