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| Searching... Author: wyatt, thomas Matches Found: 300 Wyatt, Thomas Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas 300 poems available by this author A DESCRIPTION OF SUCH A ONE AS HE WOULD LOVE Poem Text First Line: A face that should content me wondrous well Last Line: And knit again the knot that should not slide. Variant Title(s): Epigram;epigram: 29 Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Language; Sorrow; Sadness; Words; Vocabulary A PROMISE Poem Text First Line: Once as methought fortune me kissed Last Line: And I content me with my hire. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 65;song: 11 Subject(s): Fortune A PROTEST Poem Text First Line: The horses bisect the field Last Line: Cruel, unkind! I say farewell! Farewell! Variant Title(s): Song: 4 Subject(s): Farewell; Heaven; Life; Love - Unrequited; Tears; Parting; Paradise A RENOUNCING OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: Farewell, love, and all thy laws for ever! Last Line: Me lusteth no longer rotten boughs to climb. Variant Title(s): "sonnet: 31;farewell To Love;""farwell, Love, And All Thy Lawes For Ever""; Subject(s): Love - Complaints ABSENCE, ALAS AN EARNEST SUIT [TO HIS UNKIND MISTRESS NOT TO FORESAKE HIM] Poem Text Recitation First Line: And wilt thou leave me thus? Last Line: Say nay! Say nay! Variant Title(s): The Appeal; An Earnest Suit To His Unkind Mistress, Not To Forsake Him;say Nay!;the Lover's Appeal;an Appeal;song: 37 Subject(s): Love AND THEN MAY CHANCE THE TO REPENT Last Line: And wish and want as I have done ARGUMENT; PSALM First Line: Sometime the pride of my assured troth Last Line: Then sang I thus in god my confidence ARUNDEL MANUSCRIPT, SELS. AUNSWERE First Line: Your foolish fayned hast BALLADE: 1 Poem Text First Line: Resound my voice, ye woods, that hear me plain Last Line: But, as reward, death for to be my meed? Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods BALLADE: 10 Poem Text First Line: My hope, alas, hath me abused Last Line: And I remain all comfortless. Subject(s): Fortune; Happiness; Hearts; Hope; Truth; Joy; Delight; Optimism BALLADE: 11 Poem Text First Line: Though this the port and I thy servant true Last Line: Forget me not, en vogant la galere. Subject(s): Longing BALLADE: 12 Poem Text First Line: Like as the bird in the cage enclosed Last Line: By loss of life liberty, or life by prison? Subject(s): Birdcages; Freedom; Liberty BALLADE: 13 Poem Text First Line: The knot which first my heart did strain Last Line: Hath last too long. Subject(s): Longing BALLADE: 15 Poem Text First Line: It was my choice, it was no chance Last Line: And thereto trust. Subject(s): Love BALLADE: 17 Poem Text First Line: The joy so short, alas, the pain so near Last Line: That undeserved, causeless to remain. Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Happiness; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 18 Poem Text First Line: Lament my loss, my labor, and my pain Last Line: And keep them free from all such pain and care. Subject(s): Loss; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 19 Poem Text First Line: And if an eye may save or slay Last Line: Then fear not the eye to show the heart. Subject(s): Betrayal; Eyes; Grief; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness BALLADE: 20 Poem Text First Line: To wet your eye withouten tear Last Line: If I have the mock, ye shall have the loss. Subject(s): Loss; Tears BALLADE: 21 Poem Text First Line: To my mishap, alas, I find Last Line: Thus am I warned. Subject(s): Fortune; Happiness; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 22 Poem Text First Line: Since love is such that, as ye wot Last Line: The power wherein I am possessed. Subject(s): Fortune; Love; Youth BALLADE: 23 Poem Text First Line: Lo, how I seek and sue to have Last Line: In joy or pain for to endure. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 24 Poem Text First Line: Pain of all pain, the most grievous pain Last Line: Unto the soul from the body depart. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Pain; Soul; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 25 Poem Text First Line: Spite hath no power to make me sad Last Line: It doth suffice she doth me wrong. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs BALLADE: 26 Poem Text First Line: Greeting to you both in hearty wise Last Line: And hath him recommended to the cat and mouse. Subject(s): Bodies; Fear; Hope; Love; Soul; Optimism BALLADE: 27 Poem Text First Line: When that I call unto my mind Last Line: I ask but right for my redress. Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Wealth; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Riches; Fortunes BALLADE: 28 Poem Text First Line: To make an end of all this strife Last Line: This end to make. Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 29 Poem Text First Line: Deem as ye list. Upon good cause Last Line: Likewise to think it is not. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BALLADE: 3 Poem Text First Line: The restful place, reviver of my smart Last Line: Wherefore with tears, my bed, I thee forsake. Subject(s): Bodies; Grief; Hearts; Labor & Laborers; Pain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Work; Workers; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 30 Poem Text First Line: All ye that know of care and heaviness Last Line: That it stunned their song thorough all the wood. Subject(s): Eyes; Fate; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 31 Poem Text First Line: Alas! My dear, the word thou spakest Last Line: Alas, my dear. Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Optimism BALLADE: 32 Poem Text First Line: Being as none is, I do complain Last Line: With 'pity' for 'patience' and 'conscience' for 'wrong'. Subject(s): Death; Hope; Pain; Dead, The; Optimism; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 33 Poem Text First Line: Since that my language without eloquence Last Line: And I mine own, that yours may not. Subject(s): Friendship; Language; Words; Vocabulary BALLADE: 34 Poem Text First Line: Had I wist that now I wot Last Line: Rooted at the heart must needs continue. Subject(s): Faith; Truth; Belief; Creed BALLADE: 35 Poem Text First Line: Horrible of hue, hideous to behold Last Line: My heart for sorrow yet feel I quake. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Sea; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean BALLADE: 36 Poem Text First Line: I know not where my heavy sighs to hide Last Line: Whose death it is out of thy sight to be. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pain; Sickness; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery; Illness BALLADE: 37 Poem Text First Line: In mourning wise since daily I increase Last Line: Pray for the souls of those be dead and gone. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Mourning; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Bereavement BALLADE: 38 Poem Text First Line: My sweet, alas, forget me not Last Line: Forget me not. Subject(s): Life; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes BALLADE: 39 Poem Text First Line: She that should most, perceiveth least Last Line: Whether I came too hastily or too late. Subject(s): Fear; Life BALLADE: 4 Poem Text First Line: For want I will in woe I plain Last Line: Which lacketh will to change his place. Subject(s): Desire; Longing BALLADE: 40 Poem Text First Line: Sith it is so that I am thus refused Last Line: Sith thus doth reign this false new-fangledness. Subject(s): Hearts; Truth BALLADE: 41 Poem Text First Line: Though some do grudge to see me joy Last Line: As I deserve, so let me have. Subject(s): Happiness; Health; Life; Joy; Delight BALLADE: 42 Poem Text First Line: Though of the sort there be that feign Last Line: Then have I wrong. Subject(s): Hearts; Love BALLADE: 5 Poem Text First Line: Lover: it burneth yet, alas, my heart's desire Last Line: Thus hearts be won by love, request, and moan. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Grief; Hearts; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness BALLADE: 7 Poem Text First Line: It may be good, like it who list Last Line: For dread to fall I stand not fast. Subject(s): Fear BALLADE: 8 Poem Text First Line: In faith I wot not well what to say Last Line: But spite of thy hap, hap hath well happed. Subject(s): Faith; Fortune; Happiness; Smiles; Belief; Creed; Joy; Delight BALLADE: 9 Poem Text First Line: Such hap as I am happed in Last Line: Such hap as I. Subject(s): Longing BLAGE MANUSCRIPT, SELS. BUT LORDE HOW STRAUNGE IS THIS THAT TO THE JUST BEFALL CANZONE: 2 Poem Text First Line: Patience, though I have not Last Line: Is a painful patience. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 39 Subject(s): Fortune; Patience CANZONE: 3 Poem Text First Line: Patience for my device Last Line: Is easy to fulfill. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 40 Subject(s): Patience CANZONE: 5 Poem Text First Line: Since love will needs that I shall love Last Line: To serve and suffer patiently. Subject(s): Fortune; Grief; Hate; Hearts; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery CANZONE: 6 Poem Text First Line: At last withdraw your cruelty Last Line: Of double death can die. Subject(s): Cruelty; Love - Complaints CANZONE: 7 Poem Text First Line: Patience of all my smart Last Line: I must take patience. Subject(s): Patience CANZONE: 8 Poem Text First Line: Will ye see what wonders love hath wrought? Last Line: My life when it is gone. Subject(s): Enemies; Hearts; Life; Love COMPARISON OF LOVE TO A STREAM FALLING FROM THE ALPS Poem Text First Line: From these high hills as when a spring doth fall Last Line: The first estew is remedy alone. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 95;epigram: 10 Subject(s): Love - Nature Of CONSTANCY Poem Text First Line: Perdy! I said it not Last Line: Within my heart for ever. Variant Title(s): Canzone: 4 Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Life; Love; Pain; Faithfulness; Constancy; Suffering; Misery COURT OF VENUS AND A BAKE OF BALETTES, SELS. DEVONSHIRE MANUSCRIPT, SELS. DO WAY DO WAY, YE LITTLE WILY PRAT! DOBELL, DIVERSE, SOLEYN AND STRANGE DURING OF PAYNE AND GREUOUS SMART DYVERSE DOTHE USE AS I HAVE HEARD AND KNO' Last Line: That often chaunge doth plese a womans minde EGERTON MANUSCRIPT: 102 Poem Text First Line: From thought to thought from hill to hill love doth me lead Last Line: Clean contrary from restful life these common paths I tread. Subject(s): Love; Thought; Thinking EGERTON MANUSCRIPT: 104. JOPAS'S SONG Poem Text First Line: When dido feasted first the wandering trojan knight Last Line: For they have their two poles directly t'one to t'other . . .' Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers EGERTON MANUSCRIPT: 94 Poem Text First Line: Although thou see the outrageous clime aloft Last Line: For that in him they set their trust forever. Variant Title(s): Psalm 37. Noli Emulari EGERTON MANUSCRIPT: 98 First Line: In spain %so feeble is the thread that doth the burden stay Variant Title(s): Complaint Of The Absence Of His Lov EPIGRAM: 1 Poem Text First Line: Alas, madam, for stealing of a kiss Last Line: The next shall clean out of my breast it pluck. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 44 Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Life EPIGRAM: 10 Poem Text First Line: Vulcan begat me. Minerva me taught Last Line: And if I be thine enemy I may thy life end. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 103;description Of A Gun Subject(s): Guns; Riddles EPIGRAM: 12 Poem Text First Line: All in thy sight my life doth whole depend Last Line: I with thy sight, thou also with my smart. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 13 Poem Text First Line: For shamefast harm of great and hateful need Last Line: Of that he found he shaped his neck a knot. Subject(s): Despair; Life EPIGRAM: 14 Poem Text First Line: Right true it is and said full yore ago Last Line: That with the blaze his beard singeth. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 49;of The Feigned Friend Subject(s): Enemies EPIGRAM: 15 Poem Text First Line: Who hath heard of such cruelty before? Last Line: She pricked hard and made herself to bleed. Variant Title(s): Who Hath Heard Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts EPIGRAM: 16 Poem Text First Line: What word is that that changeth not Last Line: It is my health eke and my sore. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 50. Of His Love Called Anna Subject(s): Boleyn, Anne (1507-1536); Love EPIGRAM: 17 Poem Text First Line: Some time I fled the fire that me brent Last Line: Mashed in the breers that erst was all to torn. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 59 Subject(s): Desire; Fire EPIGRAM: 18. THE ENEMY OF LIFE Poem Text First Line: The enemy of life, decayer of all kind Last Line: And drove the first dart deeper more and more. Variant Title(s): The Enemy Of Life Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Life; Love; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 19 Poem Text First Line: Nature that gave the bee so feat a grace Last Line: In change whereof I leave my heart behind. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 68 Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Lips; Nature EPIGRAM: 2 Poem Text First Line: The wandering gadling in the summer tide Last Line: To sting that heart that would have my place. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 46 Subject(s): Summer; Wandering & Wanderers EPIGRAM: 20 Poem Text First Line: Desire, alas, my master and my foe Last Line: Even now by hate again I doubt the same. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 75 Subject(s): Desire; Enemies; Hate EPIGRAM: 21 Poem Text First Line: I lead a life unpleasant, nothing glad Last Line: Plain or rejoice who feeleth weal or wrong. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 88 Subject(s): Life; Pain; Singing & Singers; Truth; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 23 Poem Text First Line: Of purpose love chose first for to be blind Last Line: With such as see I serve and suffer woe. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 100 Subject(s): Love EPIGRAM: 25 Poem Text First Line: A lady gave me a gift she had not Last Line: For I am fast sworn I may not. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving EPIGRAM: 26 Poem Text First Line: Driven by desire I did this deed Last Line: Doth hurt himself and please his foe. Subject(s): Desire EPIGRAM: 27. THE FRUIT Poem Text First Line: The fruit of all the service that I serve Last Line: Amids my help, and helpless doth remain. Subject(s): Fruit; Hunger; Pain; Tantalus (greek Mythology); Thirst; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 28 Poem Text First Line: Accused though I be without desert Last Line: Except thou mind to put thy friend to pain. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Trust; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 30 Poem Text First Line: Lucks, my fair falcon, and your fellows all Last Line: Ye be my friends, and so be but few else. Variant Title(s): Lux, My Fair Falcon;of Such As Had Forsaken Him;lucks, My Fair Falcon Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Freedom; Liberty EPIGRAM: 31 Poem Text First Line: Within my breast I never thought it gain Last Line: That list to blow retreat to every train. Subject(s): Freedom; Pain; Truth; Liberty; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 33 Poem Text First Line: In court to serve decked with fresh array Last Line: In prison joys, fetter'd with chains of gold. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens EPIGRAM: 34 Poem Text First Line: Speak thou and speed, where will or power aught helpeth Last Line: Of good and bad the triers are these twain. Subject(s): Wealth; Riches; Fortunes EPIGRAM: 35 Poem Text First Line: Patience, for I have [done] wrong Last Line: Hereafter comes not yet. Subject(s): Patience EPIGRAM: 36 Poem Text First Line: Thou sleepest fast and I with woeful heart Last Line: Thou dreamest still which way my life to waste. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Sleep EPIGRAM: 37 Poem Text First Line: Plain ye, mine eyes. Accompany my heart Last Line: His flamed heat shall sometime make ye warm. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Tears; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 38 Poem Text First Line: What thing is that that I both have and lack Last Line: For that that was ready is new to begin? Subject(s): Loss EPIGRAM: 39 Poem Text First Line: In wilful riches I have found poverty Last Line: In a paradise I suffered all this pain. Subject(s): Freedom; Happiness; Pain; Liberty; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 4 Poem Text First Line: She sat and sewed that hath done me the wrong Last Line: To feel if pricking were so good indeed. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 54 Subject(s): Hearts; Singing & Singers EPIGRAM: 40 Poem Text First Line: My love is like unto th'eternal fire Last Line: By whom hell may be felt or death assail! Subject(s): Death; Hell; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 41 Poem Text First Line: Since so ye please to hear me plain Last Line: And now I leave it to them that lust. Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Lust EPIGRAM: 42 Poem Text First Line: O miserable sorrow withouten cure! Last Line: As was my pleasure when she was present. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Voices; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism EPIGRAM: 43 Poem Text First Line: The loss is small to lose such one Last Line: Though all such pique were wiped away. Subject(s): Loss EPIGRAM: 44 Poem Text First Line: Hate whom ye list for I care not Last Line: But love whom ye list, for I care not. Subject(s): Hate; Love EPIGRAM: 45 Poem Text First Line: Dido am I, the founder first of carthage Last Line: And now with lies my shame she doth report. Subject(s): Carthage; Death; Fortune; Love; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 46 Poem Text First Line: Venus, in sport, to please therewith her dear Last Line: I, I for you am weapon fit and trim.' Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 47 Poem Text First Line: I see my plaint with open ears Last Line: Is that I see myself alive. Subject(s): Eyes; Life; Tears EPIGRAM: 5 Poem Text First Line: He is not dead that sometime hath a fall Last Line: Doeth ryse again and greater wode doeth bind. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 60. From The City Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Sun; Wind; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 6 Poem Text First Line: The furious gun in his raging ire Last Line: So inward force my heart doth all to-break. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 61 Subject(s): Passion EPIGRAM: 8 Poem Text First Line: In doubtful breast whilst motherly pity Last Line: To another must I make sepulture.' Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 80 Subject(s): Children; Death - Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 9 Poem Text First Line: Of carthage he, that worthy warrior Last Line: At monzon thus I restless rest in spain. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 81 Subject(s): Carthage; Pain; Peace; Spain; War; Suffering; Misery EPITAPH OF SIR THOMAS GRAVENER First Line: Under this stone there lieth at rest FAREWELL THE REIGN OF CRUELTY FAREWELL, UNKIST Poem Text First Line: What should I say / since faith is dead Last Line: Farewell, unkist! Variant Title(s): A Revocation;song: 94 Subject(s): Love; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy FORTUNE Poem Text First Line: Marvel no more although Last Line: To sing some pleasant song. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 52;song: 32 Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Life; Singing & Singers GOO BURNYNG SIGHED UNTO THE FROSEN HERT! HAD I WISTE THAT I WOTT HAPPE HAPPITH OFTEN UNLOOKED FOR HARTE APREST WITH DESSPEROTT THOUGHTE HE RULETH NOT THROUGH HE RAIGNE OVER REALMES Poem Text First Line: If thou wilt mighty be, flee from the rage Last Line: Thy wretched life, ne do thy death profet. Variant Title(s): Ballade: 6 Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Moon; Dead, The HIS LADY'S HAND Poem Text First Line: O goodly hand Last Line: And rid it out of pain. Variant Title(s): Song: 43 Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery HIS REWARD Poem Text First Line: With serving still / this have I won Last Line: To be undone! Variant Title(s): Song: 90 Subject(s): Fortune; Pain; Suffering; Misery HONESTY Poem Text First Line: Throughout the world if it were sought Last Line: That sweet accord is seldom seen. Variant Title(s): Of Dissembling Words;throughout The World;epigram: 32 Subject(s): Honesty HORRYBELL OF HEW, HIDEOUS TO BEHOLD I WILL ALTHOUGH I MAY NOT IN ETERNUM Poem Text First Line: In eternum I was once determed Last Line: In eternum. Variant Title(s): In Aeternum;song: 14 Subject(s): Love - Unrequited IN MORNING WYSE SYNS DAYLYE I INCREASE LIBERTY Poem Text First Line: Tangled was I in love's snare Last Line: For I am now at liberty. Variant Title(s): A Lover Rejoiceth;song: 52 Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty LIFE THROW GLADY LONGER LIFE THE MORE OFFENCE LOVE HATH AGAIN MAY TIME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You that in love find luck and abundance Last Line: Rejoice! Let me dream of your felicity. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 33 Subject(s): Love; May (month) MY LUTE AND I Poem Text First Line: At most mischief / I suffer grief Last Line: To sigh and moan. Variant Title(s): Song: 31 Subject(s): Grief; Lutes; Sorrow; Sadness NO, INDEED! Poem Text First Line: What no, perdy, ye may be sure! Last Line: What no, perdy! Variant Title(s): Rondeau;rondeau: 8 O CRUEL HEART OF THE MEAN AND SURE ESTATE Poem Text First Line: My mother's maids, when they do sew and spin Last Line: To fret inward for losing such a loss. Variant Title(s): Satire: 2. To John Poynz (2);satire: 2 Subject(s): Poynz, John (d. 1544) ON HIS RETURN FROM SPAIN Poem Text First Line: Tagus farewell! That westward with thy streams Last Line: Of mighty love the wings for this me give. Variant Title(s): In Spain;of His Returne From Spaine;epigram: 22 Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips PENITENTIAL PSALM Poem Text First Line: Love to give law unto his subject hearts Last Line: With tender heart, lo, thus to god he sings: Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology PENITENTIAL PSALM: 102, SELS. First Line: Lord here my prayre and let my crye passe Last Line: And did provoke the harme off my dises PENITENTIAL PSALM: 102. DOMINE EXAUDI Poem Text First Line: Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry pass Last Line: When he his song again thus did begin. PENITENTIAL PSALM: 130. DE PROFUNDIS Poem Text First Line: From depth of sin, and from a deep despair Last Line: And thus begins the suit of his pretense. Variant Title(s): Paraphrase Of The Bible Subject(s): Penance PENITENTIAL PSALM: 143. DOMINE EXAUDI Poem Text First Line: Hear my prayer, o lord, hear my request Last Line: For thine am I, thy servant aye most bound. Subject(s): God PENITENTIAL PSALM: 32. NEATE QUORUM REMISSA SUNT Poem Text First Line: O happy are they that have forgiveness got Last Line: Which to the lord with sober voice did say: PENITENTIAL PSALM: 38. DOMINE NE IN FURORE Poem Text First Line: O lord, as I thee have both prayed and pray Last Line: This song that I not whether he cries or sings. PENITENTIAL PSALM: 51. MISERERE MEI, DOMINE Poem Text First Line: Rue on me, lord, for thy goodness and grace Last Line: And thus beginneth his song therewithal. PENITENTIAL PSALM: 6, SELS. First Line: O lord, I dred, and that I did not dred Last Line: Shake in dispayre, onles thou me assure PENITENTIAL PSALM: 6. DOMINE NE IN FURORE Poem Text First Line: O lord, since in my mouth thy mighty name Last Line: With strained voice again thus crieth he. PLEASURE MIXED WITH PAIN Poem Text First Line: Venomous thorns that are so sharp and keen Last Line: Since every woe is joined with some wealth. Variant Title(s): Epigram: 7 Subject(s): Flowers; Health PROCESS OF TIME WORKETH SUCH WONDER PSALM First Line: Like as the pilgrim that in a long way Last Line: This song that I do wether he cries or sings PSALM 37. NOLI EMULARI First Line: Altho thow se th'owtragius clime aloft PSALM 6 First Line: My soul in god hath more desirous trust Subject(s): Sleep RESIGNATION Poem Text First Line: In faith methinks it is not right Last Line: Since women use so much to feign. RONDEAU: 1 Poem Text First Line: Behold, love, thy power how she despiseth Last Line: Behold, love. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 1 Subject(s): Love RONDEAU: 2 Poem Text First Line: If it be so that I forsake thee Last Line: If it be so. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 18 RONDEAU: 3 Poem Text First Line: Go, burning sighs, unto the frozen heart Last Line: Go, burning sighs. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 20;the Lover Sendeth Sighs To Move His Suit Subject(s): Longing RONDEAU: 4 Poem Text First Line: What vaileth truth or by it to take pain Last Line: What vaileth truth? Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 2 Subject(s): Deception; Truth RONDEAU: 5 Poem Text Recitation First Line: Help me to seek for I lost it there Last Line: Help me to seek. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 17 Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness RONDEAU: 6 Poem Text First Line: Thou hast no faith of him that hath none Last Line: Thou hast no faith. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 19 Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed RONDEAU: 7 Poem Text First Line: Ye old mule that think yourself so fair Last Line: Ye old mule. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 35 RONDEAU: 9 Poem Text First Line: For to love her for her looks lovely Last Line: For to love her. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 15 Subject(s): Love - Complaints SATIRE: 1. TO JOHN POYNZ (POINS) Poem Text First Line: Mine own john poynz, since ye delight to know Last Line: Thou shalt be judge how I do spend my time. Variant Title(s): Translation Of Luigi Alamanni's 10th Satire;of The Courtier's Life Subject(s): Poynz, John (d. 1544) SATIRE: 3. TO SIR FRANCIS BRIAN Poem Text First Line: A spending hand that always poureth out Last Line: And coin to keep as water in a sieve. Subject(s): Bryan, Sir Francis (d. 1550) SECOND SATIRE, SELS. First Line: My poins, I cannot frame my tongue to feign SO UNWARELY WAS NEVER NO MAN CAWGHT Last Line: Thys restles lyff I may nott lede SONG: 10 Poem Text First Line: To wish and want and not obtain Last Line: What may it avail me? Subject(s): Despair; Fortune; Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG: 100 Poem Text First Line: I might by no means surmise Last Line: Or else I am but slain. Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; God; Hearts; Love SONG: 101 Poem Text First Line: Now must I learn to feign Last Line: Seeing she will not so. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Life; Pain; Tears; Truth; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 102 Poem Text First Line: Farewell, all my welfare Last Line: Of my great grief the great excess. Subject(s): Faith; Farewell; Love; Pain; Seduction; Truth; Belief; Creed; Parting; Suffering; Misery SONG: 103 Poem Text First Line: Now must I learn to live at rest Last Line: That I have lak'd so long. Subject(s): Faith; Life; Love; Women; Belief; Creed SONG: 104 Poem Text First Line: Longer to muse / on this refuse Last Line: And perdy to forget. Subject(s): Cruelty; Fortune; Hearts; Love SONG: 105 Poem Text First Line: Now all of change / must be my song Last Line: To quit the craft that me beguiled. Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Pain; Singing & Singers; Time; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG: 106 Poem Text First Line: Alone musing / remember Last Line: From her never to depart? Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Life; Pity; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 107 Poem Text First Line: Absence, alas / causeth me pass Last Line: In this dolour. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Trust; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The SONG: 108 Poem Text First Line: Comfort at hand! Pluck up thy heart Last Line: Pluck up thy heart.' Subject(s): Comfort; Hearts SONG: 109 Poem Text First Line: Disdain not, madam, on him to look Last Line: To keep the best and leave the bad. Subject(s): Love; Time SONG: 110 Poem Text First Line: I must go walk the woods so wild Last Line: And all for your love, my dear. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Forests; Life; Love; Nature; Trust; Woods SONG: 111 Poem Text First Line: Love doth again Last Line: She shall my heart obtain. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 112 Poem Text First Line: Might I as well within my song belay Last Line: Causeless because that I have suffered smart. Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Pain; Tears; Suffering; Misery SONG: 113 Poem Text First Line: Fortune, what aileth thee Last Line: And me heartily my whole desire. Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) SONG: 114 Poem Text First Line: What would ye more of me, your slave, require Last Line: That without cause causeless thus suffer'th smart. Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Dead, The; Parting SONG: 13 Poem Text First Line: I have sought long with steadfastness Last Line: But as who sayeth, I reck not how. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 69 Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Love SONG: 15 Poem Text First Line: Comfort thyself, my woful heart Last Line: Sigh there thy last, and therewith break. Subject(s): Longing SONG: 16 Poem Text First Line: To cause accord or to agree Last Line: That are impossible. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 17 Poem Text First Line: After great storms the calm returns Last Line: And me also the most happy. Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Hope; Pain; Storms; Optimism; Suffering; Misery SONG: 18 Poem Text First Line: The answer that ye made to me, my dear Last Line: Wherewith free will doth true desert retain. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 90 Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONG: 19 Poem Text First Line: Prove whether I do change, my dear Last Line: And if ye find . . . Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 96 Subject(s): Change SONG: 2 Poem Text First Line: Where shall I have at mine own will Last Line: For I am gone for evermore. Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Life; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The; Songs SONG: 20 Poem Text First Line: What rage is this? What furor of what kind? Last Line: May threat thy cruel heart. Subject(s): Love SONG: 21 Poem Text First Line: Take heed betime lest ye be spied Last Line: Therefore take heed! Subject(s): Eyes; Fools; Love; Idiots SONG: 22 Poem Text First Line: Alas, poor man, what hap have I Last Line: To love above my poor degree. Subject(s): Desire; Fate; Hearts; Love; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery SONG: 23 Poem Text First Line: So unwarely was never no man caught Last Line: This restless life I may not lead. Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Life; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 24 Poem Text First Line: Since you will needs that I shall sing Last Line: Within my heart. Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs SONG: 25 Poem Text First Line: Live thou gladly if so thou may Last Line: Vain is all trust of man's refuge. Subject(s): Despair; Virtue SONG: 26 Poem Text First Line: Who list his wealth and ease retain Last Line: For sure, circa regna tonat. Variant Title(s): "who List His Wealth And Ease Retain';innocentia; Veritas Viat Fides; Subject(s): Desire; God; Hearts; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes SONG: 27 Poem Text First Line: Disdain me not without desert Last Line: Disdain me not. Variant Title(s): A Lover's Prayer Subject(s): Love SONG: 28 Poem Text First Line: Sufficed not, madam, that you did tear Last Line: Feel as I do. This shalt thou gain thereby. Subject(s): Longing SONG: 29 Poem Text First Line: I see that chance hath chosen me Last Line: And other have that I deserve. Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 3 Poem Text First Line: Like as the swan towards her death Last Line: "to cry: ""I died and you regard it not." Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 70 Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONG: 30 Poem Text First Line: If fancy would favor Last Line: To love me best of all. Subject(s): Love SONG: 34 Poem Text First Line: Since ye delight to know Last Line: For to repent your cruelness. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 72 Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 35 Poem Text First Line: Lo, what it is to love! Last Line: Who now doth slander love, &c. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 87 Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 36. THE BALLAD OF WILL Poem Text First Line: I will and yet I may not Last Line: Will willing is but vain. Subject(s): Love SONG: 38 Poem Text First Line: Me list no more to sing Last Line: I wott what I doo meane. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SONG: 39 Poem Text First Line: Your looks so often cast Last Line: To stop a thing so clear. Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Love SONG: 40 Poem Text First Line: Pass forth, my wonted cries Last Line: Which is a just reward. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pity SONG: 41 Poem Text First Line: Mistrustful minds be moved Last Line: Thereof god send them part. Subject(s): God; Truth SONG: 42 Poem Text First Line: Ah, robin, / jolly robin Last Line: And let them warm with thee.' Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Robins; Women; Joy; Delight SONG: 44 Poem Text Recitation First Line: There was never nothing more me pained Last Line: Alas the while! Subject(s): Love; Pain; Tears; Suffering; Misery SONG: 45 Poem Text First Line: What death is worse than this? Last Line: A deadly life in woe? Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 63 Subject(s): Despair SONG: 46 Poem Text First Line: All heavy minds / do seek to ease their charge Last Line: Is clean in vain. Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG: 49 Poem Text First Line: If with complaint the pain might be expressed Last Line: Since if ye list ye may my woe restrain? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 5 Poem Text First Line: To seek each where where man doth live Last Line: Dare I well give, I say, my heart to year. Subject(s): France; Hearts; Jewelry & Jewelers; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean SONG: 50 Poem Text First Line: Ye know my heart, my lady dear Last Line: Unto your own that loveth you so? Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 41 Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONG: 51 Poem Text First Line: If ever man might him avant [advance] Last Line: And bear it as I can. Subject(s): Fortune SONG: 53 Poem Text First Line: Alas, the grief and deadly woful smart Last Line: To whomsoever lust for to proffer most. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 54 Poem Text First Line: But sithens you it assay to kill Last Line: Slain have I by unfaithfulness!' Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 6 Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts SONG: 55 Poem Text First Line: Like as the wind with raging blast Last Line: Of evil sown seed such is the fruit. Variant Title(s): Of Love Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Grief; Life; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 56 Poem Text First Line: Heart oppressed with desperate thought Last Line: Since cruel will doth me so use. Subject(s): Cruelty; Despair; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Singing & Singers SONG: 57 Poem Text First Line: My pen, take pain a little space Last Line: My pen, I prithee write no more. Variant Title(s): To His Pen Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers SONG: 58 Poem Text First Line: I love, loved, and so doth she Last Line: To love so well and leave in smart. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Songs SONG: 59 Poem Text First Line: Suffering in sorrow, in hope to attain Last Line: Content to serve and suffer still I must. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Suffering; Misery SONG: 6 Poem Text First Line: Most wretched heart, most miserable Last Line: Since unhap cannot kill me so. Subject(s): Fear; Hearts; Hope; Quarrels; Truth; Optimism; Arguments; Disagreements SONG: 60 Poem Text First Line: The heart and service to you proffered Last Line: Reward your servant liberally. Subject(s): Hearts; Honesty; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 61 Poem Text First Line: As power and wit will me assist Last Line: Even as ye list. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Life; Love; Truth; Joy; Delight SONG: 62 Poem Text First Line: Sometime I sigh, sometime I sing Last Line: And never to change you for no new. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Songs SONG: 63 Poem Text First Line: Thy promise was to love me best Last Line: I promise thee, I promise thee. Subject(s): Faith; Hearts; Love; Belief; Creed SONG: 64 Poem Text First Line: I see the change from that that was Last Line: I see the change. Variant Title(s): Psalm Subject(s): Change; Faith; Patience; Belief; Creed SONG: 66 Poem Text First Line: Give place all ye that doth rejoice Last Line: Praise it who list, I like it not. Subject(s): Cruelty; Faith; Hearts; Love; Voices; Belief; Creed SONG: 67 Poem Text First Line: Grudge on who list, this is my lot Last Line: No thing to want if it were not. Subject(s): Eyes; Faith; Hearts; Love; Belief; Creed SONG: 68 Poem Text First Line: Ah, my heart, ah, what aileth thee Last Line: Ah! My heart, ah! What aileth thee? Variant Title(s): To His Heart Subject(s): Freedom; Grief; Hearts; Love; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 69 Poem Text First Line: Absence absenting causeth me to complain Last Line: Now welcome, death. I am ready to die. Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Separation; Isolation SONG: 7 Poem Text First Line: What meaneth this? When I lie alone? Last Line: What meaneth this? Subject(s): Sleep SONG: 71 Poem Text First Line: Alas, dear heart, what hap had I Last Line: If that I be not loved again. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 72 Poem Text First Line: Alas, fortune, what aileth thee Last Line: That thou wilt change. Subject(s): Fortune; Hope; Pain; Optimism; Suffering; Misery SONG: 73 Poem Text First Line: Complaining, alas, without redress Last Line: Where now for pain I die, I die. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Lament; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 74 Poem Text First Line: Duress of pains and grievous smart Last Line: Heart, sigh no more, I pray thee, break. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Hearts; Life; Pain; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery SONG: 75 Poem Text First Line: Desire to sorrow doth me constrain Last Line: By patience. Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism SONG: 76 Poem Text First Line: Defamed guiltiness by silence unkept Last Line: From doing amiss, will I live again. Subject(s): Betrayal; Forgiveness; Guilt; Trust; Clemency SONG: 77. THE ANSWER Poem Text First Line: Even when you lust, ye may refrain Last Line: I am not ruled by fantasy. Subject(s): Fantasy; Grief; Love; Lust; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 78 Poem Text First Line: I am ready and ever will be Last Line: Although I have not. Subject(s): Hearts; Honesty; Love SONG: 79 Poem Text First Line: If I might have at mine own will Last Line: That force perforce I do sustain. Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Life; Pain; Tears; Paradise; Suffering; Misery SONG: 8 Poem Text First Line: When first mine eyes did view and mark Last Line: Or else thy heart had been as mine. Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Life SONG: 80 Poem Text First Line: Mourning my heart doth sore oppress Last Line: Alas, and cannot be loved again. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mourning; Pain; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery SONG: 81 Poem Text First Line: O, what undeserved cruelty Last Line: Till my careful life may turn contrary. Subject(s): Cruelty; Fortune; Grief; Happiness; Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight SONG: 82 Poem Text First Line: Once in your grace I know I was Last Line: That once I was. Variant Title(s): Ons In Your Grace I Knowe I Was Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Happiness; Hearts; Dead, The; Joy; Delight SONG: 83 Poem Text First Line: O, cruel heart, where is thy faith? Last Line: Farewell my love and all my woe. Subject(s): Cruelty; Faith; Hearts; Love; Tears; Time; Belief; Creed SONG: 84 Poem Text First Line: Quondam was I in my lady's grace Last Line: Sure quondam was I. Subject(s): Women SONG: 85 Poem Text First Line: Spite of their spite which they in vain Last Line: My fancy is too hard to turn. Subject(s): Fantasy; Fear; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 86 Poem Text First Line: Driven by desire to set affection Last Line: And not covet that thing that will not be? Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 87 Poem Text First Line: Shall she never out of my mind Last Line: To see her loving gentleness. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Letters; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 88 Poem Text First Line: To whom should I sue to ease my pain? Last Line: And here an end, and here an end. Subject(s): Fear; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 89 Poem Text First Line: Longer to trow ye Last Line: Where I could not so. Subject(s): Faith; Love; Belief; Creed SONG: 9 Poem Text First Line: Though I cannot your cruelty constrain Last Line: Rejoice not at my pain. Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 91 Poem Text First Line: Who would have ever thought Last Line: To draw better the next. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 93 Poem Text First Line: Full well it may be seen Last Line: That thinks it worth the pain. Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONG: 95 Poem Text First Line: Fortune doth frown Last Line: By destiny. Subject(s): Fate; Fortune; Destiny SONG: 96 Poem Text First Line: I have been a lover Last Line: Though ye misjudge these last. Subject(s): Disease; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 97 Poem Text First Line: Madam, I you require Last Line: Ye get not that ye lack. Subject(s): Language; Truth; Women; Words; Vocabulary SONG: 98 Poem Text First Line: Sith I myself displease thee Last Line: It were a wilful rage. Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Suffering; Misery SONG: 99 Poem Text First Line: Love whom ye list and spare not Last Line: For I am indifferent. Subject(s): Hate; Love SONNET: 1 Poem Text First Line: Caesar, when that the traitor of egypt Last Line: To cloak my care, but under sport and play. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 3 Subject(s): Deception; Laughter SONNET: 12 Poem Text First Line: Was I never yet of your love grieved Last Line: And ye yourself the cause thereof hath been. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 9 Subject(s): Longing SONNET: 13 Poem Text First Line: If amour's faith, an heart unfeigned Last Line: Yours is the fault and mine the great annoy. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 12 Subject(s): Love SONNET: 14 Poem Text First Line: My heart I gave thee, not to do it pain Last Line: Ploweth in water and soweth in the sand. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 14 Subject(s): Desire; Farewell; Hearts; Parting SONNET: 15 Poem Text First Line: Some fowls there be that have so perfect sight Last Line: Yet do I know I run into the glede. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 24 Subject(s): Eyes; Faces SONNET: 18 Poem Text First Line: Though I myself be bridled of my mind Last Line: Whereby his absence turneth him to sorrow.' Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 27 Subject(s): Grief; Honor; Love; Time; Truth; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 20 Poem Text First Line: Avising the bright beams of these fair eyes Last Line: Of such a root cometh fruit fruitless. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 29 Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Love SONNET: 22 Poem Text First Line: Love and fortune and my mind, remember Last Line: And all my thoughts are dashed into dust. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 31 Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Love; Trust SONNET: 23 Poem Text First Line: How oft have I, my dere and cruell foo Last Line: And yours the losse and myn the dedly pain. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 32 SONNET: 25 Poem Text First Line: The lively sparks that issue from those eyes Last Line: "of deadly ""nay"" hear I the fearful thunder." Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 47 Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONNET: 28 Poem Text First Line: If waker care, if sudden pale color Last Line: Without whose help scant do I live a day. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 97 Subject(s): Fear; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight SONNET: 30 Poem Text First Line: Each man me telleth I change most my devise Last Line: But always one your own both firm and stable. Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy SONNET: 32 Poem Text First Line: There was never file half so well filed Last Line: And the reward little trust forever. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 16 Subject(s): Time; Youth SONNET: 34 Poem Text First Line: The flaming sighs that boil within my breast Last Line: To have the like of this my painful stroke. Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts SONNET: 35 Poem Text First Line: To rail or jest ye know I use it not Last Line: Too long delays and changing at the last. SONNET: 36 Poem Text First Line: My love took scorn my service to retain Last Line: So is there time such madness to assuage. SONNET: 37 Poem Text First Line: Such is the course that nature's kind hath wrought Last Line: For that they hate, are made most miserable. Subject(s): Hate; Nature; Singing & Singers SONNET: 39 Poem Text First Line: I abide and abide and better abide Last Line: "than to say ""abide' and yet not obtain." Subject(s): Love SONNET: 40 Poem Text First Line: Against the rock I climb, both high and hard Last Line: For dread to fall, my hand, now hold thee fast. Subject(s): Climbing; Courage; Valor; Bravery SONNET: 41 Poem Text First Line: By bolstered words I am borne in hand Last Line: Is my 'no fears' of your 'no faith'. Subject(s): Faith; Fear; Language; Belief; Creed; Words; Vocabulary SONNET: 42 Poem Text First Line: Driving to desire, adread also to dare Last Line: Though double in deeds, a inward perfect man. Subject(s): Desire; Faith; Fear; Hope; Belief; Creed; Optimism SPYTT OFF THE SPYTT WHICH THEY IN VAIN STEADFASTNESS; THE LOVER BESEECHETH HIS MISTRESS Poem Text Recitation First Line: Forget not yet the tried intent Last Line: Forget not this. Variant Title(s): A Supplication;song: 65 Subject(s): Fidelity; Love; Love - Loss Of; Faithfulness; Constancy SYTHE IN MY SELF DISPLEASE THE THE COMPLAINT OF A DESERTED LOVER Poem Text First Line: How should I / be so pleasant THE DECEIVED LOVER SUETH ONLY FOR LIBERTY Poem Text First Line: If chance assigned / were to my mind Last Line: My death, or life with liberty. Variant Title(s): Song: 33 Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Fate; Freedom; Life; Dead, The; Destiny; Liberty THE DESERTED LOVER CONSOLETH HIMSELF ... Poem Text First Line: Divers doth use, as I have heard and know Last Line: That often change doth please a woman's mind. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE HIND Poem Text Recitation First Line: Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind Last Line: And wild for to hold, though I seem tame. Variant Title(s): "sonnets To Laura In Life: 157 (from Petrarch);rime 190 (imitated From Petrarch);sonnet: 11;hands Off!;""who So List To Hounte I Know Where Is An Hynde""; Subject(s): Boleyn, Anne (1507-1536); Deer; Hunting; Love; Hunters THE LOVER HAVING DREAMED OF ENJOYING HIS LOVE Poem Text First Line: Unstable dream, according to the place Last Line: Such mocks of dreams they turn to deadly pain. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 79;sonnet: 27 Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Pain; Dead, The; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery THE LOVER SHOWETH HE IS FORSAKEN ... (VARIANT VERSION) Poem Text First Line: They flee from me, that sometime did me seek Last Line: How like you this, what hath she now deserved? THE LOVER SHOWETH HOW HE IS FORSAKEN Poem Text Recitation First Line: They flee from me that sometime did me seek Last Line: I would fain know what she hath deserved. Variant Title(s): Remembrance;vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus;they Flee From Me;ballade: 2;the Lover Showeth How He Is Abandoned Of Such As He Onetime Enjoyed Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Falcons; Love; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares THE LUTE OBEYS Poem Text Recitation First Line: Blame not my lute! For he must sound Last Line: Blame not my lute! Variant Title(s): Ballade: 16 Subject(s): Lutes THE RE-CURED LOVER EXULTETH IN HIS FREEDOM Poem Text Recitation First Line: I am as I am, and so will I be Last Line: That I am as I am and so will I be. Variant Title(s): Song: 70 Subject(s): God; Life; Self THE WAVERING LOVER WILLETH AND DREADETH, TO MOVE HIS DESIRE Poem Text First Line: Such vain thought as wonted to mislead me Last Line: But such it is I not how to begin. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 26 Subject(s): Fear; Freedom; Hearts; Hope; Liberty; Optimism TO A LADY TO ANSWER DIRECTLY WITH YEA OR NAY Poem Text First Line: Madam, withouten many words Last Line: And I mine own, and yours no more. Variant Title(s): Yea Or Nay;to His Lady;madam, Withouten Many Words;song: 1 Subject(s): Courtship; Love TO A RAYLE OR GESTE YE KNOW I USE IT NOT TO HIS LUTE Poem Text Recitation First Line: My lute, awake! Perform the last / labor that thou and I shall waste Last Line: My lute, be still, for I have done. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 66;the Lover Complaineth The Unkindness Of His Love;song: 12 Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Lutes TOTTELS'S SONGS AND SONNETS, SELS. TREIZAINE Poem Text First Line: If in the world there be more woe Last Line: My poor true heart, all comfortless. Variant Title(s): Song: 47 Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness VARIUM ET MUTABILE Poem Text Recitation First Line: Is it possible / that so high debate Last Line: All is possible. Variant Title(s): Ys Yt Possyble;song: 48 Subject(s): Mutability VENUS IN SPORT WYATT BEING IN PRISON, TO BRIAN Poem Text First Line: Sighs are my food, drink are my tears Last Line: But yet, alas, the scar shall still remain. Variant Title(s): Sighs Are My Food;epigram: 24 Subject(s): Bryan, Sir Francis (d. 1550); Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts |
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