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[Transcriptions are not provided for noncanonical poems, elegies on Donne by other authors, or prose compositions.] |
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The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most part |
according to Tremelius. |
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CHAP. I. |
1. How sits this citie, late most populous, |
Thus solitary, and like a widdow thus? |
Amplest of Nations, Queene of Provinces |
She was, who now thus tributary is? |
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2. Still in the night she weeps, and her teares fall |
Downe by her cheekes along, and none of all |
Her lovers comfort her; Perfidiously |
Her friends have dealt, and now are enemie. |
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3. Vnto great bondage, and afflictions |
Iuda is captive led; Those Nations |
With whom she dwels, no place of rest afford, |
In streights shee meets her Persecutors sword. |
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4. Emptie are the gates of Sion, and her wayes |
Mourne, because none come to her solemne dayes. |
Her Priests doe groane, her maids are comfortlesse, |
And shee's unto her selfe a bitternesse.
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[CW: 5. Her] |