Francis Quarles: Hosanna or divine poems on the passion of Christ and Threnodes ::

Francis Quarles: Hosanna or divine poems on the passion of Christ and Threnodes

Edited by John Horden

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

HOSANNA,

VPON THE DAY OF OVR SAVIOVRS NATIVITY.

Borne of a Virgin.

Borne in Augustus time.

Borne in Winter.

Borne in the Night.

The Angels tell it to the Shepheards.

Of the Starres that appeared to the wise men.

Of the wise men.

Of the Innocents.

Of St. Stephen.

Of our Saviours Circumcision, or New-yeares day.

Vpon Our Saviours Passion.

They put a Crowne of Thornes upon his head.

They gave him Vineger and Gall, Mat. 27. And Wine mingled with Mvrrh, Mark 15.

They compell'd Simon of Syrene to beare his Crosse.

Crucified.

Crucified between two Theeves.

The Earth did quake.

The Sunne was in a totall Eclips, and not as naturally it should have been in the Sign with the Moon.

The Graves opened, and many of the Saints arose.

Buried in a Garden.

Buried in a new Tombe hewen out of a Rock.

The Mount of Olives.

Whit-Sunday: There was a noise from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind.

There appeared unto them Tongues.

Tongues of fire, and sate upon each of them.

Threnodes On the Lady Marsham, late wife to Sir William Marsham of High Laver in the County of Essex Bnt AND William Cheyne Esquire the late Husband to That Vertuous and Mournefull Lady Lucie, Youngest Daughter of Sir Thomas Barington Knight and Baronet.

THRENODES Consecrated To the pretious Memory OF The Lady Marsham.

Threnodes On William Cheyne Esquire.

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Of the Starres that appeared to the wise men.

Astrologie hath this rule; Heav'ns seldome shine
With idle fires; like Prophets they devine
Stupendious events; That spark'ling beame
That did so long in Cassiopia streame,
And shot upon the world an angery glance,

Shew'd in its lookes the Massacree of France.
This Starre whose comming Balaam had profest,
(From some wise men, thinke these wise men were guest)
Not fram'd by Natures fingers, but the hand
That framed Nature did not move and stand
A non significant, but it selfe a wonder,
Shew'd that a greater miracle lay under.
How was th' eternall Sonne obscured here
A Stable was his Heav'n, a Crib his sphere,
Never had Sun such an Eclips as this,
To want a Starre to shew men where it is.

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Of the Starres that appeared to the wise men.