| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Licia | | Sonnet XXXIX. My grief began, fair Saint, when first I saw | | Giles Fletcher (1586?–1623) |
| | | MY grief began, fair Saint, when first I saw | |
| Love, in those eyes, sit ruling with disdain; | |
| Whose sweet commands did keep a world in awe: | |
| And caused them serve, your favour to obtain. | |
| I stood as one enchanted with a frown; | 5 |
| Yet smiled to see all creatures serve those eyes: | |
| Where each with sighs paid tribute to that crown; | |
| And thought them gracèd by your dumb replies. | |
| But I, ambitious, could not be content | |
| Till that my service, more than sighs made known; | 10 |
| And for that end, my heart to you I sent, | |
| To say and swear that, Fair! it is your own. | |
| Then greater graces, LICIA, do impart! | |
| Not dumb replies, unto a speaking heart. | | | | |
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