| 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 PHŒBUS 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, Phœnix-like. from thence I may arise. | | | | |
|
|
