Love
Sonnet XXXVI: Heare how my sighes, are ecchoed of
From Licia, or Poemes of Love (1593)
Heare how my sighes, are ecchoed of the wind,
See how my teares, are pittied by the raine:
Feele what a flame, possessed hath my mind,
Taste but the griefe, which I possesse in vaine.
Then if my sighes, the blustering windes surpasse:
And watrie teares, the droppes of raine exceed,
And if no flame, like mine, nor is, nor was:
Nor griefe like that, wheron my soule doth feed:
Relent (faire Licia) when my sighes doe blowe,
Yeeld at my teares, that flint-like, droppes consume:
Accept the flame, that doth my incense showe,
Allowe the griefe, that is my hearts perfume.
Thus sighes, and teares, flame, griefe, shall plead for me,
So shall I pray, and you a goddesse be.
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MLA
Elder, Giles Fletcher the. “Sonnet XXXVI: Heare how my sighes, are ecchoed of.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher_g/34/.
Chicago
Elder, Giles Fletcher the. “Sonnet XXXVI: Heare how my sighes, are ecchoed of.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher_g/34/.
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