Love
Sonnet XXXV: When as I wish, faire Licia for
From Licia, or Poemes of Love (1593)
When as I wish, faire Licia for a kisse:
From those sweet lippes, where Rose and Lillies strive,
Straight doe mine eies, repine at such a blisse,
And seeke my lippes, thereof for to deprive,
When as I seeke, to glut mine eies, by sight:
My lippes repine and call mine eyes away:
Thus both contend, to have each others right:
And both conspire, to worke my full decay.
O force admyt'd, of beautie in her pride:
In whose each part, such strange effects there be,
That all my forces, in themselves devide:
And make my senses, plainlie disagree.
If all were mine, this envie would be gone:
Then graunt me all (faire sweet) or grant me none.
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Elder, Giles Fletcher the. “Sonnet XXXV: When as I wish, faire Licia for.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher_g/33/.
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Elder, Giles Fletcher the. “Sonnet XXXV: When as I wish, faire Licia for.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher_g/33/.
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