Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG: 93, by THOMAS WYATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full well it may be seen Last Line: That thinks it worth the pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Love - Complaints | ||||||||
Full well it may be seen To such as understand, How some there be that ween They have their wealth at hand: Through love's abused band But little do they see The abuse wherein they be. Of love there is a kind Which kindleth by abuse, As in a feeble mind Whom fancy may induce By love's deceitful use To follow the fond lust And proof of a vain trust. As I myself may say, By trial of the same, No wight can well bewray The falsehood love can frame. I say, twixt grief and game, There is no living man That knows the craft love can. For love so well can feign To favour for the while That such as seeks the gain Are served with the guile, And some can this concile To give the simple leave Themselves for to deceive. What thing may more declare Of love the crafty kind, Than see the wise, so ware, In love to be so blind? If so it be assign'd, Let them enjoy the gain That thinks it worth the pain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TALKING RICHARD WILSON BLUES, BY RICHARD CLAY WILSON by DENIS JOHNSON THE BRIDGE by ALEXANDER ANDERSON THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD MISGIVINGS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THROUGH AGONY: 1 by CLAUDE MCKAY HEMATITE HEIRLOOM LIVES ON (MAYBE DECEMBER 1980) by ALICE NOTLEY |
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