Love

Sonnet XXXIV: Pale are my looks, forsaken of my life

by Giles Fletcher the Elder c. 1549–1611

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles, ed. M. F. Crow (1896)

Love

Pale are my looks, forsaken of my life,
Cinders my bones, consumèd with thy flame,
Floods are my tears, to end this burning strife,
And yet I sigh for to increase the same;
I mourn alone because alone I burn;
Who doubts of this, then let him learn to love;
Her looks cold ice into a flame can turn,
As I distressèd in myself do prove.
Respect, fair Licia, what my torments are;
Count but the tithe both of my sighs and tears;
See how my love doth still increase my care,
And care's increase my life to nothing wears.
Send but a sigh my flame for to increase,
Or lend a tear and cause it so to cease.

MLA

Elder, Giles Fletcher the. “Sonnet XXXIV: Pale are my looks, forsaken of my life.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher_g/60/.

Chicago

Elder, Giles Fletcher the. “Sonnet XXXIV: Pale are my looks, forsaken of my life.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher_g/60/.

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