| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Licia | | Sonnet XXXI. Years, months, days, hours, in sighs I sadly spend | | Giles Fletcher (1586?–1623) |
| | | YEARS, months, days, hours, in sighs I sadly spend. | |
| I black the night, wherein I sleepless toss. | |
| I love my griefs, yet wish them at an end. | |
| Thus time’s expense increaseth but my loss. | |
| I musing stand, and wonder at my Love; | 5 |
| That in so fair, should be a heart of steel. | |
| And then I think, my fancy to remove: | |
| But then more painful I my passions feel. | |
| Thus must I love, sweet Fair, until I die; | |
| And your unkindness doth my love increase: | 10 |
| I conquered am, I cannot it deny. | |
| My life must end; yet shall my love not cease. | |
| Then heavens, make LICIA fair most kind to me; | |
| Or with my life, my love may finished be! | | | | |
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