Love

Sonnet LII: O sugred talke, where with my thoughtes

by Giles Fletcher the Elder c. 1549–1611

From Licia, or Poemes of Love (1593)

Love

O sugred talke, where with my thoughtes doe live:
O browes loves Trophee, and my senses shine:
O charming smyles, that death or life can give:
O heavenly kisses from a mouth devine:
O wreaths too strong, and tramels made of hayre:
O pearles inclosed in an Ebon pale,
O Rose and Lillyes in a field most fayre,
Where modest whyte, doth make the red seeme pale.
O voyce whose accents live within my heart,
O heavenly hand that more then Atlas holds,
O sighes perfum'd, that can release my smart.
O happy they, whome in her armes she folds.
Nowe if you aske where dwelleth all this blisse,
Seeke out my love, and she will shew you this.

MLA

Elder, Giles Fletcher the. “Sonnet LII: O sugred talke, where with my thoughtes.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher_g/51/.

Chicago

Elder, Giles Fletcher the. “Sonnet LII: O sugred talke, where with my thoughtes.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher_g/51/.

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