| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Licia | | Sonnet XXIX. When as my Licia sailèd in the seas | | Giles Fletcher (1586?–1623) |
| | | WHEN as my LICIA sailèd in the seas, | |
| Viewing with pride, god NEPTUNE’s stately crown, | |
| A calm she made, and brought the merchant ease; | |
| The storm she stayed, and checked him with a frown. | |
| Love at the stern sat smiling, and did sing | 5 |
| To see how seas had learned for to obey; | |
| And balls of fire into the waves did fling. | |
| And still the boy, full wanton, thus did say: | |
| “Both poles we burnt, whereon the world doth turn; | |
| The round of heaven from earth unto the skies: | 10 |
| And now the seas, we both intend to burn; | |
| I with my bow, and LICIA with her eyes.” | |
| Then since thy force, heavens, earth, nor seas can move; | |
| I conquered, yield: and do confess I love. | | | | |
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