Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | Licia | Sonnet XV. I stood amazed, and saw my Licia shine | Giles Fletcher (1586?1623) |
| I STOOD amazed, and saw my LICIA shine | |
Fairer than PHBUS in his brightest pride; | |
Set forth in colours by a hand divine, | |
Where naught was wanting but a soul to guide. | |
It was a picture that I could descry, | 5 |
Yet made with art so as it seemed to live; | |
Surpassing fair, and yet it had no eye: | |
Whereof my senses could no reason give. | |
With that the Painter bid me not to muse, | |
Her eyes are shut; but I deserve no blame: | 10 |
For if she saw, in faith, it could not choose | |
But that the work had wholly been aflame. | |
Then burn me, Sweet, with brightness of your eyes; | |
That, Phnix-like. from thence I may arise. | | | |
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