Francis Quarles Love Poems
- 1. The Loadstone
Eternal God! O Thou that only art
The sacred fountain of eternal light,
And blessed loadstone of my better part,
O Thou my heart's desire, my soul's delight!
... - 2. Sion's Sonnets
Bridegroom.
Now rests my love : till nuw her tender brest,
Wanting her joy, could finde no peace, no rest;
... - 3. From 'the History Of Samson'
The Argument.
He goes to Timnah : as he went
He slew a lyon by the way;
... - 4. My Beloved Is Mine And I Am His
Even like two little bank-dividing brooks,
That wash the pebbles with their wanton stream,
And having ranged and searched a thousand nook
Meet both at length in silver-breasted Thames
... - 5. Delight In God Only
I love (and have some cause to love) the earth;
She is my Maker's creature, therefore good:
She is my mother, for she gave me birth;
She is my tender nurse; she gives me food;
... - 6. Funerall Elegy Vii
GOE, glorious saint ! I knew 'twas not a shrine
Of flesh could lodge so pure a soule as thine;
I saw it labour (in a holy scorne
Of living dust and ashes) to be swome
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