Love

Sonnet XXVI: I live (sweete love) whereas the gentle

by Giles Fletcher the Elder c. 1549–1611

From Licia, or Poemes of Love (1593)

Love

I live (sweete love) whereas the gentle winde,
Murmures with sport, in midst of thickest bowes,
Where loving Wood-bine, doth the Harbour binde,
And chirping birdes doe eccho foorth my vowes:
Where strongest elme, can scarce support the vine,
And sweetest flowres enameld have the ground,
Where Muses dwell, and yet hereat repine:
That on the earth so rare a place was found.
But windes delight, I wish to be content:
I praise the Wood-bine, but I take no joye:
I moane the birdes, that musicke thus have spent:
As for the rest, they breede but mine annoye.
Live thou (fayre Licia) in this place alone:
Then shall I joye, though all of these were gone.

MLA

Elder, Giles Fletcher the. “Sonnet XXVI: I live (sweete love) whereas the gentle.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher_g/26/.

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Elder, Giles Fletcher the. “Sonnet XXVI: I live (sweete love) whereas the gentle.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher_g/26/.

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