| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Licia | | Sonnet XXVI. I live, sweet Love, where as the gentle wind | | Giles Fletcher (1586?–1623) |
| | | I LIVE, sweet Love, where as the gentle wind | |
| Murmurs with sport, in midst of thickest boughs; | |
| Where loving woodbine doth the harbour bind, | |
| And chirping birds do echo forth my vows; | |
| Where strongest elm can scarce support the vine, | 5 |
| And sweetest flowers enamelled have the ground; | |
| Where Muses dwell: and yet hereat repine | |
| That on the earth so rare a place was found. | |
| But winds delight: I wish to be content. | |
| I praise the woodbine: but I take no joy. | 10 |
| I moan the birds that music thus have spent. | |
| As for the rest, they breed but mine annoy. | |
| Live thou, fair LICIA, in this place alone: | |
| Then shall I joy, though all of these were gone. | | | | |
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