Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG: 84, by THOMAS WYATT Poet's Biography First Line: Quondam was I in my lady's grace Last Line: Sure quondam was I. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Women | ||||||||
Quondam was I in my lady's grace, I think as well as now be you; And when that you have trod the trace Then shall you know my words be true, That quondam was I. Quondam was I. She said for ever. That "ever" lasted but a short while. Promise made not to dissever, I thought she laughed -- she did but smile. That quondam was I. Quiondam was I -- he that full oft lay In her arms with kisses many one. It is enough that this I may say: Though among the moe now I be gone Yet quondam was I. Quondam was I. Yet she will not you tell That, since the hour she was first born, She never loved none half so well As you. But what although she had sworn? Sure quondam was I. | Other Poems of Interest...OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 7 by LYN HEJINIAN ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS by JOHN HOLLANDER A WOMAN'S DELUSION by SUSAN HOWE JULIA TUTWILER STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN by ANDREW HUDGINS THE WOMEN ON CYTHAERON by ROBINSON JEFFERS TOMORROW by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD LADIES FOR DINNER, SAIPAN by KENNETH KOCH |
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