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Francis Quarles
(8 May 1592 – 8 September 1644 / Romford, Essex, England)
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Francis Quarles was an English poet most famous for his Emblem book aptly entitled Emblems. Career Francis was born in Romford, Essex, (now London Borough of Havering), and baptised there on 8 May 1592. He traced his ancestry to a family settled in England before the Norman Conquest wit .. .. more >>
Poems
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1     A Divine Rapture
2     A Good Night
3     An Ecstacy
4     Delight In God Only
5     Epigram
6     Epigram - On Players And Ballad-Singers
7     Hos ego versiculos
8     My Beloved Is Mine and I Am His
9     On Change Of Weather
10     On the Infancy of Our Savior
11     On The Life And Death Of Man
12     On The World
13     On the World
14     Respice Finem
15     The Loadstone
16     The Shortness Of Life
17     Why dost thou Shade thy Lovely Face?
 
 

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