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, ...
If, Cupid, Heaven is your home, youare the child of Venus, Nectar andAmbrosia are your food, then whydo you spend ...
I swear, fair Licia, still for to be thine,By heart, by eyes, by what I held most dear;Thou checked mine ...
Sweet, I protest, and seal it with an oath:I never saw that so my thoughts did please;And yet content displeased ...
Why died I not whenas I last did sleep?O sleep too short that shadowed forth my dear!Heavens, hear my prayers, ...
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 ...
If that I die, fair Licia, with disdain,Or heartless live surpris(Giles Fletcher Sr)
Fair matchless nymph, respect but what I crave;My thoughts are true, and honour is my love;I fainting die whom yet ...
Are those two stars, her eyes, my life's light gone,By which my soul was fre(Giles Fletcher Sr)
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 speak, fair Licia, what my torments be,But then my speech too partial do I find;For hardly words can with ...
I live, sweet love, whereas the gentle windMurmurs with sport in midst of thickest boughs,Where loving woodbine doth the harbor ...
Whenas her lute is tun(Giles Fletcher Sr)
Hear how my sighs are echoed of the wind;See how my tears are pitied by the rain;Feel what a flame ...
My love was masked, and armed with a fan,To see the sun so careless of his light,Which stood and gazed, ...
When as my love lay sickly in her bed,Pale death did post in hope to have a prey;But she so ...
The crystal stream wherein my love did swim,Melted in tears as partners of my woe;Her shine was such as did ...
Ah Licia, sigh and say thou art my own;Nay, be my own, as you full oft have said.So shall your ...
That time, fair Licia, when I stole a kiss,From off those lips, where Cupid lovely laid,I quaked for cold, and ...
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 ...
The heavens beheld the beauty of my queen,And all amazed, to wonder thus began:"Why dotes not Jove, as erst we ...
If, aged Charon, when my life shall end,I pass thy ferry and my waftage pay,Thy oars shall fall, thy boat ...
As are the sands, fair Licia, on the shore,Or colored flowers, garlands of the spring,Or as the frosts not seen, ...
Cruel fair love, I justly do complainOf too much rigor and thy heart unkind,That for mine eyes thou hast my ...
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