Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET: 13, by THOMAS WYATT


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First Line: If amour's faith, an heart unfeigned
Last Line: Yours is the fault and mine the great annoy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 12
Subject(s): Love


If amour's faith, an heart unfeigned,
A sweet languor, a great lovely desire,
If honest will kindle in gentle fire,
If long error in a blind maze chained,
If in my visage each thought depainted
Or else in my sparkling voice lower or higher
Which now fear, now shame, woefully doth tire,
If a pale color which love hath stained,
If to have another than myself more dear,
If wailing and sighing continually
With sorrowful anger feeding busily,
If burning afar off and freezing near
Are cause that by love myself I destroy,
Yours is the fault and mine the great annoy.





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