Speaks of love with distraught tears (6)
I believe the answer is:
orates
'speaks' is the definition.
(orating is a kind of speaking)
'love with distraught tears' is the wordplay.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero'**).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'distraught' indicates anagramming the letters.
'tears' with letters rearranged gives 'rates'.
'o'+'rates'='ORATES'
'of' is the link.
(Other definitions for orates that I've seen before include "Talks pompously" , "Speaks formally, makes speech" , "Makes lengthy or pompous speech" , "Talks grandly from a platform" , "Speechifies" .)