Francis Quarles

Poems (5)

• A Divine Rapture

  E'en like two little bank-dividing brooks, / That wash the pebbles with their wanton streams, …

• A Mystical Ecstasy

  E’en like two little bank-dividing brooks, / That wash the pebbles with their wanton streams, …

• Delight in God

  I Love, and have some cause to love, the earth,— / She is my Maker’s creature, therefore good; …

• Respice Finem

  My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; / Judge not the play before the play is done: …

• The Vanity of the World

  False world, thou ly’st: thou canst not lend / The least delight: …