Love

Caelica, Sonnet L

by Fulke Greville 1554–1628

From Caelica (1633)

Love

CAElica, because we now in absence liue,
Which liu'd so long in free-borne loue at one,
Straight curious Rumour doth her censure giue,
That our Aspects are to another Zone.

Yet Caelica, you know I doe not change,
My heart beares witnesse that there is no cause,
Authority may bid Good-will be strange,
But True desire is subiect to no lawes:
If I haue spoken to the common sense,
It Enuy kills, and is a wise Offence.

MLA

Greville, Fulke. “Caelica, Sonnet L.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/greville/65/.

Chicago

Greville, Fulke. “Caelica, Sonnet L.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/greville/65/.

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