Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET: 28, by THOMAS WYATT



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First Line: If waker care, if sudden pale color
Last Line: Without whose help scant do I live a day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 97
Subject(s): Fear; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight


If waker care, if sudden pale color,
If many sighs with little speech to plain,
Now joy, now woe, if they my cheer disdain
For hope of small, if much to fear therefore,
To haste, to slake my pace less or more,
Be sigh of love, then do I love again.
If thou ask whom, sure since I did refrain
Brunet, that set my wealth in such a roar,
Th' unfained cheer of Phillis hath the place
That Brunet had: she hath and ever shall.
She from myself now hath me in her grace;
She hath in hand my wit, my will and all;
My heart alone well worthy she doth stay,
Without whose help scant do I live a day.





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