| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Licia | | Sonnet XLII. For if alone thou think to waft my Love | | Giles Fletcher (1586?–1623) |
| | | FOR if alone thou think to waft my Love, | |
| Her cold is such as can the sea command; | |
| And frozen ice shall let [hinder] thy boat to move. | |
| Nor can thy forces row it from the land. | |
| But if thou, friendly, both at once shall take; | 5 |
| Thyself mayest rest! For why? My sighs will blow. | |
| Our cold and heat so sweet a thaw shall make | |
| As that thy boat, without thy help, shall row. | |
| Then will I sit and glut me on those eyes | |
| Wherewith my life, my eyes could never fill. | 10 |
| Thus from thy boat that comfort shall arise, | |
| The want whereof my life and hope did kill. | |
| Together placed, so thou her scorn shalt cross: | |
| Where if we part, thy boat must suffer loss. | | | | |
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