Licia Sonnets 52 (Giles Fletcher Sr Poems)
O sugared talk, wherewith my thoughts do live!O brows, love's trophy and my senses' shine!O charming smiles, that death or ...
O sugared talk, wherewith my thoughts do live!O brows, love's trophy and my senses' shine!O charming smiles, that death or ...
As are the sands, fair Licia, on the shore,Or colored flowers, garlands of the spring,Or as the frosts not seen, ...
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 ...
There shone a comet, and it was full west.My thoughts presag(Giles Fletcher Sr)
First did I fear, when first my love began,Possessed in fits by watchful jealousyI sought to keep what I by ...
If he be dead, in whom no heart remains,Or lifeless be in whom no life is found;If he do pine ...
I stood amazed, and saw my Licia shine,Fairer than Phoeligbus, in his brightest pride,Set forth in colors by a hand ...
In time the strong and stately turrets fall,In time the rose and silver lilies die,In time the monarchs captive are ...
I saw, sweet Licia, when the spider ranWithin your house to weave a worthless web,You present were and feared her ...
In Ida vale three queens the shepherd saw,Queens of esteem, divine they were all three,A sight of worth. But I ...
Whenas I wish, fair Licia, for a kissFrom those sweet lips where rose and lilies strive,Straight do mine eyes repine ...
I wish sometimes, although a worthless thing,Spurred by ambition, glad to aspire,Myself a monarch, or some mighty king,And then my ...
When first the sun whom all my senses serve,Began to shine upon this earthly round,The heavens for her all graces ...
My love amazed did blush herself to see,Pictured by art, all naked as she was."How could the painter know so ...
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 ...
Grant, fairest kind, a kiss unto thy friend!A blush replied, and yet a kiss I had.It is not heaven that ...
I might have died before my life begun,Whenas my father for his country's goodThe Persian's favor and the Sophey wonAnd ...
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