Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE RESTLESS HEART, by HENRY HOWARD



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First Line: The fancy, which that I have served long
Last Line: Against my will, full pleased with my pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of


The fancy, which that I have served long,
That hath alway been enemy to mine ease,
Seemed of late to rue upon my wrong
And bad me fly the cause of my misease.
And I forthwith did prease out of the throng,
That thought by flight my painful heart to please
Some other way, till I saw faith more strong.
And to myself I said: "Alas, those days
In vain were spent, to run the race so long."
And with that thought I met my guide, that plain
Out of the way wherein I wandered wrong
Brought me amids the hills in base Bullayn,
Where I am now, as restless to remain,
Against my will, full pleased with my pain.





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