| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Licia | | Sonnet XLIII. Are those two stars, her eyes, my life’s light, gone? | | Giles Fletcher (1586?–1623) |
| | | ARE those two stars, her eyes, my life’s light, gone? | |
| By which my soul was freeèd from all dark: | |
| And am I left distressed to live alone, | |
| Where none my tears and mournful tale shall mark? | |
| Ah, Sun! why shine thy looks, thy looks like gold; | 5 |
| When, horseman brave, thou risest in the East? | |
| Ah, CYNTHIA pale, to whom my griefs I told! | |
| Why do you both rejoice both man and beast? | |
| And I alone, alone that dark possess | |
| By LICIA’s absence, brighter than the Sun: | 10 |
| Whose smiling light did ease my sad distress, | |
| And broke the clouds when tears like rain begun. | |
| Heavens grant that light, and so me waking keep: | |
| Or shut my eyes, and rock me fast asleep! | | | | |
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