Quote #7
Thou art my life, my way, my light
More from Francis Quarles
- My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene…
- Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: He that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.
- He that loves thee, He that keeps And guards thee, never slumbers, never sleeps.
- Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.
- Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends.
- And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.
- Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are gone Like twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.
- Let all thy joys be as the month of May And all thy days be as a marriage day: Let sorrow, sickness, and a troubled mind Be stranger to the…