| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Licia | | Sonnet LII. O sugared talk! wherewith my thoughts do live | | Giles Fletcher (1586?–1623) |
| | | O SUGARED talk! wherewith my thoughts do live. | |
| O brows! Love’s trophy, and my senses’ shrine. | |
| O charming smiles! that death or life can give. | |
| O heavenly kisses! from a mouth divine. | |
| O wreaths! too strong, and trammels made of hair! | 5 |
| O pearls! enclosèd in an ebon [ivory] pale. | |
| O rose and lilies! in a field most fair, | |
| Where modest white doth make the red seem pale. | |
| O voice! whose accents live within my heart. | |
| O heavenly hand! that more than ATLAS holds. | 10 |
| O sighs perfumed! that can release my smart. | |
| O happy they! whom in her arms she folds. | |
| Now if you ask, Where dwelleth all this bliss? | |
| Seek out my Love! and she will tell you this. | | | | |
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