| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Licia | | Sonnet VII. Death, in a rage, assaulted once my heart | | Giles Fletcher (1586?–1623) |
| | | DEATH, in a rage, assaulted once my heart | |
| With love of her, my love that doth deny. | |
| I scorned his force, and wished him to depart, | |
| I heartless was, and therefore could not die. | |
| I live in her. In her I placed my life. | 5 |
| She guides my soul, and her I honour must. | |
| Nor is this life; but yet a living strife: | |
| A thing unmeet, and yet a thing most just. | |
| CUPID, enraged, did fly to make me love; | |
| My heart lay guarded with those burning eyes, | 10 |
| The sparks whereof denied him to remove: | |
| So conquered now, he like a captive lies. | |
| Thus two at once by love are both undone: | |
| My heart not loved; and armless VENUS’ son. | | | | |
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