Sions Sonets. Sung by Soloman the King and Periphras'd by Francis Quarles. [Song of Songs or Song of Soloman]
- Hardcover
- Cambridge: Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin, 1905
Cambridge: Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Number 12 of 430 copies. This is a fine press edition of the Song of Songs as published in 1680 by Quarles in his Divine Poems. The Song of Songs is an erotic poem that celebrates sexual intimacy and love. In Christianity it is read as an allegory of Christ and the Church (his bride). Below is the first part of Bride: Sonnet I:
"O that the bounty of those lips Divine
Would seal their favours on these lips of mine,
That by those welcome *kisses, I might see
The mutual love betwixt my Love and me!
For truer bliss no worldly joy allows,
Than sacred Kisses from so sweet a Spouse,
With which no earthly pleasure may compare,
Rich Wines are not so delicate as they 're"
Very good in original red cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Fading to spine and a few markings to front cover. Printed on laid paper with untrimmed edges. Pages remain unopened. A small book, about the size of a postcard. 125 pages. PRI/032013.
"O that the bounty of those lips Divine
Would seal their favours on these lips of mine,
That by those welcome *kisses, I might see
The mutual love betwixt my Love and me!
For truer bliss no worldly joy allows,
Than sacred Kisses from so sweet a Spouse,
With which no earthly pleasure may compare,
Rich Wines are not so delicate as they 're"
Very good in original red cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Fading to spine and a few markings to front cover. Printed on laid paper with untrimmed edges. Pages remain unopened. A small book, about the size of a postcard. 125 pages. PRI/032013.