| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Licia | | Sonnet XXXV. Hear how my Sighs are echoed by the wind! | | Giles Fletcher (1586?–1623) |
| | | HEAR how my Sighs are echoed by the wind! | |
| See how my Tears are pitied by the rain! | |
| Feel what a Flame possessèd hath my mind! | |
| Taste but the Grief which I possess in vain! | |
| Then if my Sighs, the blustering wind surpass; | 5 |
| And wat’ry Tears, the drops of rain exceed; | |
| And if no Flame like mine nor is, nor was; | |
| Nor Grief like that whereon my soul doth feed: | |
| Relent, fair LICIA! when my Sighs do blow: | |
| Yield at my Tears! that flintlike drops consume: | 10 |
| Accept the Flame! that doth my incense show: | |
| Allow the Grief! that is my heart’s perfume: | |
| Thus Sighs, and Tears, Flame, Grief, shall plead for me; | |
| So shall I pray, and you a goddess be. | | | | |
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