Licia Sonnets 01 (Giles Fletcher Sr Poems)
Bright matchless star, the honour of the sky,From whose clear shine heaven's vault hath all his light,I send these poems ...
Bright matchless star, the honour of the sky,From whose clear shine heaven's vault hath all his light,I send these poems ...
Seven are the lights that wander in the skies,And at these seven, I wonder in my love.So see the moon, ...
I swear, fair Licia, still for to be thine,By heart, by eyes, by what I held most dear;Thou checked mine ...
Whenas my Licia sailed in the seas,Viewing with pride god Neptune's stately crown,A calm she made, and brought the merchant ...
I wrote my sighs, and sent them to my love;I praised that fair that none enough could praise;But plaints nor ...
Fair matchless nymph, respect but what I crave;My thoughts are true, and honour is my love;I fainting die whom yet ...
Hard are the rocks, the marble, and the steel,The ancient oak with wind and weather tossed;But you, my love, far ...
Love with her hair my love by force hath tied,To serve her lips, her eyes, her voice, her hand;I smiled ...
Love and my love did range the forest wild,Mounted alike, upon swift coursers both.Love her encountered, though he was a ...
I live, sweet love, whereas the gentle windMurmurs with sport in midst of thickest boughs,Where loving woodbine doth the harbor ...
My love was masked, and armed with a fan,To see the sun so careless of his light,Which stood and gazed, ...
Ah Licia, sigh and say thou art my own;Nay, be my own, as you full oft have said.So shall your ...
Weary was love and sought to take his rest,He made his choice, upon a virgin's lap;And slyly crept from thence ...
Licia my love was sitting in a grove,Tuning her smiles unto the chirping songs,But straight she spied where two together ...
For if alone thou think to waft my love,Her cold is such as can the sea command,And frozen ice shall ...
Cruel fair love, I justly do complainOf too much rigor and thy heart unkind,That for mine eyes thou hast my ...
O sugared talk, wherewith my thoughts do live!O brows, love's trophy and my senses' shine!O charming smiles, that death or ...
Love was laid down, all weary fast asleep,Whereas my love his armor took away;The boy awaked, and straight began to ...
Enamored Jove commanding did entreatCupid to wound my love, which he denied,And swore he could not for she wanted heatAnd ...
My love lay sleeping, where birds music made,Shutting her eyes, disdainful of the light;The heat was great but greater was ...
Like Memnon's rock, touched with the rising sunWhich yields a sound and echoes forth a voice,But when it's drowned in ...
A painter drew the image of the boy,Swift love, with wings all naked, and yet blind;With bow and arrows, bent ...
First did I fear, when first my love began,Possessed in fits by watchful jealousyI sought to keep what I by ...
I wish sometimes, although a worthless thing,Spurred by ambition, glad to aspire,Myself a monarch, or some mighty king,And then my ...
Pale are my looks, forsaken of my life,Cinders my bones, consume'd with thy flame,Floods are my tears, to end this ...
Years, months, days, hours, in sighs I sadly spend;I black the night wherein I sleepless toss;I love my griefs yet ...
Death in a rage assaulted once my heartWith love of her, my love that doth deny.I scorned his force, and ...
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