Francis Quarles Live Poems
- 1. Sonnets
Mors Christi.
And am I here, and my Redeemer gone ?
Can he be dead, and is not my life done ?
... - 2. Why Dost Thou Shade Thy Lovely Face?
1 Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? Oh, why
2 Does that eclipsing hand so long deny
3 The sunshine of thy soul-enliv'ning eye?
... - 3. From 'a Feast For Wormes'
The Argument.
The Ninivites beleeve the word,
Their hearts retiu'ne mito the Lord;
... - 4. Funerall Elegy Xx
Vnconstant earth ! why doe not mortals cease
To build their hopes upon so short a lease ?
Vncertaine lease, whose terme but once begun,
Tels never when it ends till it be done :
... - 5. From 'the History Of Samson'
The Argument.
He goes to Timnah : as he went
He slew a lyon by the way;
... - 6. Funerall Elegy Xiii
No, no, he is not dead ; the mouth of fame,
Honor's shrill herald, would preserve his name,
And make it live in spight of death and dust,
Were there no other heaven, no other trust.
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