Delphi Complete Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt (Illustrated)

By Sir Thomas Wyatt

Credited with introducing the sonnet into English poetry, the lyrical poet Sir Thomas Wyatt was responsible for pioneering innovations in verse literature. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete works of Sir Thomas Wyatt, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wyatt's life and works
* Concise introductions to the poetry and other works
* Excellent formatting of the poems, with line numbers – ideal for students
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Includes Wyatt's scarce letters - explore the poet's personal correspondence with his son, Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII
* Also includes Wyatt’s rare Oration, appearing here for the first time in digital print
* Features two bonus biographies - discover Wyatt's literary life
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CONTENTS:

The Poetry of Wyatt
BRIEF INTRODUCTION: SIR THOMAS WYATT

The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Letters
THE LETTERS OF SIR THOMAS WYATT

The Oration
SIR THOMAS WYATT’S DEFENCE

The Biographies
SIR THOMAS WYATT by Sidney Lee
THE LIFE OF SIR THOMAS WYATT by Charles Cowden Clarke Please visit

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Delphi Classics
• Release date: Aug 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781910630532

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Sir Thomas Wyatt

(1503-1542)

Contents

The Poetry of Wyatt

Brief Introduction: Sir Thomas Wyatt

The Poems

List of Poems in Chronological Order

List of Poems in Alphabetical Order

The Letters

The Letters of Sir Thomas Wyatt

The Oration

Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Defence

The Biographies

Sir Thomas Wyatt by Sidney Lee

The Life of Sir Thomas Wyatt by Charles Cowden Clarke

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The Poetry of Wyatt

Allington Castle, north of Maidstone, Kent — Wyatt’s birthplace

Sir Thomas Wyatt by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1540

Brief Introduction: Sir Thomas Wyatt

SIR THOMAS WYATT (1503-1542), who is now credited with introducing the sonnet into English literature, was born at Allington Castle, near Maidstone in Kent, though his family were originally of Yorkshire origin. His mother was Anne Skinner and his father, Henry Wyatt, had been one of Henry VII’s Privy Councillors and remained a trusted adviser when Henry VIII came to the throne in 1509. In his turn, Thomas Wyatt followed his father to court after his university education at Cambridge.

Reportedly, Wyatt was over six feet tall and both handsome and physically strong. Although interested in poetry from an early age, Wyatt was to achieve more renown during his lifetime for his work as an ambassador in the service of Henry VIII. He first entered the King’s service in 1515 as Sewer Extraordinary and in the same year he began studying at St John’s College of the University of Cambridge. Later, Wyatt accompanied Sir John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, to Rome to help petition Pope Clement VII to annul the marriage of Henry VIII to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, an embassy whose goal was to make Henry free to marry Anne Boleyn. In 1535 Wyatt was knighted and appointed High Sheriff of Kent for 1536.

In 1520, Wyatt married Elizabeth Brooke, (1503–1550), the daughter of Thomas Brooke, 8th Baron Cobham, and a year later they had a son: However, early in the marriage, marital difficulties arose, with Wyatt claiming these were ‘chiefly her fault’, accusing Elizabeth of being an adulteress, although there is no surviving evidence to support the truth of this claim.  Elizabeth separated from Wyatt in 1526 and he supported her until 1537, when he refused to do so any longer and sent her to live with her brother, Lord Cobham. In that same year, Lord Cobham attempted to force Wyatt to continue his financial support, which the poet refused. It was not until 1541 that Wyatt, being accused of treason, was arrested and his properties confiscated, that the Brooke family was able to force a reconciliation as a condition for Wyatt’s pardon.

Many legends have persisted over time concerning the notion that the young and unhappily married Wyatt had fallen in love with Anne Boleyn in the early 1520s. It is certain that they knew each other and the nineteenth-century critic George Gilfillan argues extensively that Wyatt and Boleyn were romantically connected. In several of his verses Wyatt calls his mistress Anna and allegedly alludes to events in her life:

    And now I follow the coals that be quent,

    From Dover to Calais against my mind . . . .

Gilfillan claims that these lines could refer to Anne’s trip to France in 1532, immediately prior to her marriage to Henry VIII, perhaps implying that Wyatt was present, although his name is not included among those who accompanied the royal party to France. Wyatt’s sonnet Whoso List To Hunt may also allude to Anne’s relationship with the King:

    Graven in diamonds with letters plain,

    There is written her fair neck round about,

    ‘Noli me tangere [Do not touch me], Caesar’s, I am’.

In May 1536 Wyatt was imprisoned in the Tower of London for allegedly committing adultery with Anne Boleyn, though he was released later that year, due to his friendship with Thomas Cromwell and he returned to his duties. During his stay in the Tower, he may have witnessed not only the execution of Anne Boleyn from his cell window, but also the prior executions of the five men with whom she was accused of adultery. Wyatt is known to have written a poem inspired by the experience, which, though it avoids declaring the executions groundless, expresses grief and shock.

By 1540 Wyatt was again in royal favour, having been granted the site and many of the manorial estates of the dissolved Boxley Abbey. However, in 1541 he was charged again with treason and the charges were again lifted, though only thanks to the intervention of Henry’s fifth wife, Queen Catherine Howard, and upon the condition of reconciling with his ‘adulterous’ wife. Wyatt was granted a full pardon and restored once again to his duties as ambassador. After the execution of Catherine Howard, there were rumours that Wyatt’s wife, Elizabeth, was a possibility for Henry’s sixth wife, although she was still married to Wyatt. He became ill not long after, and died on 11 October 1542, aged 39, while staying with his friend Sir John Horsey at Clifton Maybank House in Dorset. Wyatt is buried in nearby Sherborne Abbey.

At a time when French and Italian poetry was the most highly revered form of literature, Wyatt’s professed object in writing verses was to experiment with the English tongue, to ‘civilise it’ and to raise its powers to those of its neighbours. A significant amount of Wyatt’s literary output consists of translations and imitations of sonnets by the Italian poet Petrarch, though Wyatt also composed sonnets of his own. He borrowed much subject matter from Petrarch’s sonnets, but Wyatt’s rhyme schemes make a significant departure from those of his Italian model. Petrarch’s sonnets consist of an octave, rhyming abba abba, followed, after a turn by a sestet with various rhyme schemes. Wyatt employs the Petrarchan octave, but his most common sestet scheme is cddc ee, signalling the beginnings of an exclusively English sonnet structure, that is three quatrains with a closing couplet.

In addition to imitations of works by the classical writers Seneca and Horace, Wyatt experimented in stanza forms including the rondeau, epigrams, terza rima, ottava rima songs, satires and also with monorime, triplets with refrains, quatrains with different length of line and rhyme schemes, quatrains with codas, and the French forms of douzaine and treizaine. He also introduced his contemporaries to his poulter’s measure form (Alexandrine couplets of twelve syllable iambic lines alternating with a fourteener, fourteen syllable line) and Wyatt is now widely regarded by scholars as a master of the iambic tetrameter.

Many of Wyatt’s poems deal with the trials of romantic love and the devotion of the suitor to an unavailable or cruel mistress, whilst other poems concern scathing attacks or satirical indictments of the pandering courtiers that Wyatt often met at the Tudor court. While Wyatt’s poetry reflects classical and Italian models, he was also greatly influenced by the works of Chaucer, as demonstrated by the high frequency of Chaucerian words found in Wyatt’s compositions. The Egerton Manuscript, originally an album containing Wyatt’s personal selection of his poems and translations, preserves 123 texts, partly in the poet’s hand. None of Wyatt’s poems were published during his lifetime — the first book to feature his verse, Tottel’s Miscellany of 1557, was printed a full fifteen years after the poet’s death, including 97 poems attributed to Wyatt among the 271 poems in Tottel’s Miscellany.

Wyatt was one of the earliest poets of the Renaissance that was responsible for original innovations in English poetry and, alongside Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, he introduced the sonnet from Italy into English literature. Wyatt’s poetry demonstrates a supreme sensitive feeling and purity of diction, paving the way for the imminent genius of Spenser and Shakespeare.

Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374) was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch’s sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and became a model for lyrical poetry.

Anne Boleyn (c. 1501-1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII.

Henry VIII (1491-1547) was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death in 1547.

Thomas Wyatt — drawing by Hans Holbein the Younger

CONTENTS

Songs and Sonnets

THE LOVER FOR SHAMEFASTNESS HIDETH HIS DESIRE WITHIN HIS FAITHFUL HEART

THE LOVER WAXETH WISER, AND WILL NOT DIE FOR AFFECTION

THE ABUSED LOVER SEETH HIS FOLLY AND INTENDETH TO TRUST NO MORE

THE LOVER DESCRIBETH HIS BEING STRICKEN WITH SIGHT OF HIS LOVE

THE WAVERING LOVER WILLETH, AND DREADETH, TO MOVE HIS DESIRE

THE LOVER HAVING DREAMED ENJOYING OF HIS LOVE, COMPLAINETH THAT THE DREAM IS NOT EITHER LONGER OR TRUER

THE LOVER UNHAPPY BIDDETH HAPPY LOVERS REJOICE IN MAY, WHILE HE WAILETH THAT MONTH TO HIM MOST UNLUCKY

THE LOVER CONFESSETH HIM IN LOVE WITH PHYLLIS

OF OTHERS’ FEIGNED SORROW, AND THE LOVER’S FEIGNED MIRTH

OF CHANGE IN MIND

HOW THE LOVER PERISHETH IN HIS DELIGHT AS THE FLY IN THE FIRE

AGAINST HIS TONGUE THAT FAILED TO UTTER HIS SUITS

DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTRARIOUS PASSIONS IN A LOVER

THE LOVER COMPARETH HIS STATE TO A SHIP IN PERILOUS STORM TOSSED ON THE SEA

OF DOUBTFUL LOVE

THE LOVER ABUSED RENOUNCETH LOVE

TO HIS LADY, CRUEL OVER HER YIELDING LOVER

HOW UNPOSSIBLE IT IS TO FIND QUIET IN LOVE

OF LOVE, FORTUNE, AND THE LOVER’S MIND

THE LOVER PRAYETH HIS OFFERED HEART TO BE RECEIVED

THE LOVER’S LIFE COMPARED TO THE ALPS

CHARGING OF HIS LOVE AS UNPITEOUS AND LOVING OTHER

THE LOVER FORSAKETH HIS UNKIND LOVE

THE LOVER DESCRIBETH HIS RESTLESS STATE

THE LOVER LAMENTS THE DEATH OF HIS LOVE

A RENOUNCING OF LOVE

THE LOVER DESPAIRING TO ATTAIN UNTO HIS LADY’S GRACE RELINQUISHETH THE PURSUIT

THE DESERTED LOVER CONSOLETH HIMSELF WITH REMEMBRANCE THAT ALL WOMEN ARE BY NATURE FICKLE

THAT HOPE UNSATISFIED IS TO THE LOVER’S HEART AS A PROLONGED DEATH

HE PRAYETH HIS LADY TO BE TRUE, FOR NO ONE CAN RESTRAIN A WILLING MIND

THE DESERTED LOVER WISHETH THAT HIS RIVAL MIGHT EXPERIENCE THE SAME FORTUNE HE HIMSELF HAD TASTED

Rondeaux

REQUEST TO CUPID FOR REVENGE OF HIS UNKIND LOVE

COMPLAINT FOR TRUE LOVE UNREQUITED

THE LOVER SENDETH SIGHS TO MOVE HIS SUIT

THE LOVER SEEKING FOR HIS LOST HEART PRAYETH THAT IT MAY BE KINDLY ENTREATED BY WHOMSOEVER FOUND

HE DETERMINETH TO CEASE TO LOVE

OF THE FOLLY OF LOVING WHEN THE SEASON OF LOVE IS PAST

THE ABUSED LOVER RESOLVETH TO FORGET HIS UNKIND MISTRESS

THE ABSENT LOVER PERSUADETH HIMSELF THAT HIS MISTRESS WILL NOT HAVE THE POWER TO FORSAKE HIM

THE RECURED LOVER RENOUNCETH HIS FICKLE MISTRESS FOR HER NEWFANGLENESS

Odes

THE LOVER COMPLAINETH THE UNKINDNESS OF HIS LOVE

THE LOVER REJOICETH THE ENJOYING OF HIS LOVE

THE LOVER SHEWETH HOW HE IS FORSAKEN OF SUCH AS HE SOMETIME ENJOYED

THE LOVER TO HIS BED, WITH DESCRIBING OF HIS UNQUIET STATE

THE LOVER COMPLAINETH THAT HIS LOVE DOTH NOT PITY HIM

THE LOVER COMPLAINETH HIMSELF FORSAKEN

A RENOUNCING OF HARDLY ESCAPED LOVE

THE LOVER TAUGHT, MISTRUSTETH ALLUREMENTS

THE LOVER REJOICETH AGAINST FORTUNE THAT BY HINDERING HIS SUIT HAD HAPPILY MADE HIM FORSAKE HIS FOLLY

THE LOVER’S SORROWFUL STATE MAKETH HIM WRITE SORROWFUL SONGS, BUT SUCH HIS LOVE MAY CHANGE THE SAME

THE LOVER SENDETH HIS COMPLAINTS AND TEARS TO SUE FOR GRACE

THE LOVER’S CASE CANNOT BE HIDDEN HOWEVER HE DISSEMBLE

THE LOVER PRAYETH NOT TO BE DISDAINED, REFUSED, MISTRUSTED, NOR FORSAKEN

THE LOVER LAMENTETH HIS ESTATE WITH SUIT FOR GRACE

THE LOVER WAILETH HIS CHANGED JOYS

TO HIS LOVE THAT HATH GIVEN HIM ANSWER OF REFUSAL

THE LOVER DESCRIBETH HIS BEING TAKEN WITH SIGHT OF HIS LOVE

THE LOVER EXCUSETH HIM OF WORDS, WHEREWITH HE WAS UNJUSTLY CHARGED

THE LOVER CURSETH THE TIME WHEN FIRST HE FELL IN LOVE

THE LOVER DETERMINETH TO SERVE FAITHFULLY

TO HIS UNKIND LOVE

THE LOVER COMPLAINETH HIS ESTATE

WHETHER LIBERTY BY LOSS OF LIFE, OR LIFE IN PRISON AND THRALDOM BE TO BE PREFERRED

HE RULETH NOT THOUGH HE REIGN OVER REALMS, THAT IS SUBJECT TO HIS OWN LUSTS

THE FAITHFUL LOVER GIVETH TO HIS MISTRESS HIS HEART AS HIS BEST AND ONLY TREASURE

A DESCRIPTION OF THE SORROW OF TRUE LOVERS’ PARTING

THE NEGLECTED LOVER CALLETH ON HIS STONY HEARTED MISTRESS TO HEAR HIM COMPLAIN ERE THAT HE DIE

HE REJOICETH THE OBTAINING THE FAVOUR OF THE MISTRESS OF HIS HEART

THE LOVER PRAYETH VENUS TO CONDUCT HIM TO THE DESIRED HAVEN

THE LOVER PRAISETH THE BEAUTY OF HIS LADY’S HAND

THAT THE EYE BEWRAYETH ALWAY THE SECRET AFFECTIONS OF THE HEART

THE LOVER COMPLAINETH THAT FAITH MAY NOT AVAIL WITHOUT THE FAVOUR OF FANTASY

THAT TOO MUCH CONFIDENCE SOMETIMES DISAPPOINTETH HOPE

THE LOVER BEMOANETH HIS UNHAPPINESS THAT HE CANNOT OBTAIN GRACE, YET CANNOT CEASE LOVING

THE MOURNFUL LOVER TO HIS HEART WITH COMPLAINT THAT IT WILL NOT BREAK

THE LOVER RENOUNCES HIS CRUEL LOVE FOR EVER

A COMPLAINT OF HIS LADY’S CRUELTY

OF THE CONTRARY AFFECTIONS OF THE LOVER

THAT RIGHT CANNOT GOVERN FANCY

THAT TRUE LOVE AVAILETH NOT WHEN FORTUNE LIST TO FROWN

THE DECEIVED LOVER SUETH ONLY FOR LIBERTY

THE LOVER CALLETH ON HIS LUTE TO HELP HIM BEMOAN HIS HAPLESS FATE

THAT THE POWER OF LOVE IS SUCH HE WORKETH IMPOSSIBILITIES

THAT THE LIFE OF THE UNREGARDED LOVER IS WORSE THAN DEATH

THE LOVER WHO CANNOT PREVAIL MUST NEEDS HAVE PATIENCE

WHEN FORTUNE SMILES NOT, ONLY PATIENCE COMFORTETH

THAT PATIENCE ALONE CAN HEAL THE WOUND INFLICTED BY ADVERSITY

THE LOVER, HOPELESS OF GREATER HAPPINESS, CONTENTETH HIMSELF WITH ONLY PITY

THAT TIME, HUMBLENESS, AND PRAYER, CAN SOFTEN EVERY THING SAVE HIS LADY’S HEART

THAT UNKINDNESS HATH SLAIN HIS POOR TRUE HEART

THE DYING LOVER COMPLAINETH THAT HIS MISTRESS REGARDETH NOT HIS SUFFERINGS

THE CAREFUL LOVER COMPLAINETH, AND THE HAPPY LOVER COUNSELLETH

THE LOVER HAVING BROKEN HIS BONDAGE, VOWETH NEVER MORE TO BE ENTHRALLED

THE ABUSED LOVER, ADMONISHES THE UNWARY TO BEWARE OF LOVE

A REPROOF TO SUCH AS SLANDER LOVE

DESPAIR COUNSELLETH THE DESERTED LOVER TO END HIS WOES BY DEATH, BUT REASON BRINGETH COMFORT

THE LOVER’S LUTE CANNOT BE BLAMED THOUGH IT SING OF HIS LADY’S UNKINDNESS

THE NEGLECTED LOVER CALLETH ON HIS PEN TO RECORD THE UNGENTLE BEHAVIOUR OF HIS UNKIND MISTRESS

THAT CAUTION SHOULD BE USED IN LOVE

AN EARNEST REQUEST TO HIS CRUEL MISTRESS EITHER TO PITY HIM OR LET HIM DIE

THE ABUSED LOVER REPROACHETH HIS FALSE MISTRESS OF DISSIMULATION

HE BEWAILS HIS HARD FATE THAT THOUGH BELOVED OF HIS MISTRESS HE STILL LIVES IN PAIN

A COMPLAINT OF THE FALSENESS OF LOVE

THE LOVER SUETH THAT HIS SERVICE MAY BE ACCEPTED

OF THE PAINS AND SORROWS CAUSED BY LOVE

THE LOVER RECOUNTETH THE VARIABLE FANCY OF HIS FICKLE MISTRESS

THE ABUSED LOVER BEWAILS THE TIME THAT EVER HIS EYE BEHELD HER TO WHOM HE HAD GIVEN HIS FAITHFUL HEART

AN EARNEST SUIT TO HIS UNKIND MISTRESS NOT TO FORSAKE HIM

HE REMEMBERETH THE PROMISE HIS LADY ONCE GAVE HIM OF AFFECTION, AND COMFORTETH HIMSELF WITH HOPE

THAT ALL HIS JOY DEPENDETH ON HIS LADY’S FAVOUR

HE PROMISETH TO REMAIN FAITHFUL WHATEVER FORTUNE BETIDE

THE FAITHFUL LOVER WISHETH ALL EVIL MAY BEFALL HIM IF HE FORSAKE HIS LADY

OF FORTUNE, LOVE, AND FANTASY

DESERTED BY HIS MISTRESS, HE RENOUNCETH ALL JOY FOR EVER

THAT NO WORDS MAY EXPRESS THE CRAFTY TRAINS OF LOVE

THAT THE POWER OF LOVE EXCUSETH THE FOLLY OF LOVING

THE DOUBTFUL LOVER RESOLVETH TO BE ASSURED WHETHER HE IS TO LIVE IN JOY OR WOE

OF THE EXTREME TORMENT ENDURED BY THE UNHAPPY LOVER

HE BIDDETH FAREWELL TO HIS UNKIND MISTRESS

HE REPENTETH THAT HE HAD EVER LOVED

THE LOVER BESEECHETH HIS MISTRESS NOT TO FORGET HIS STEADFAST FAITH AND TRUE INTENT

HE BEWAILS THE PAIN HE ENDURES WHEN BANISHED FROM THE MISTRESS OF HIS HEART

HE COMPARES HIS SUFFERINGS TO THOSE OF TANTALUS

THAT NOTHING MAY ASSUAGE HIS PAIN SAVE ONLY HIS LADY’S FAVOUR

THE LOVER PRAYETH THAT HIS LONG SUFFERINGS MAY AT LENGTH FIND RECOMPENSE

HE DESCRIBETH THE CEASELESS TORMENTS OF LOVE

THAT THE SEASON OF ENJOYMENT IS SHORT, AND SHOULD NOT PASS BY NEGLECTED

THAT THE PAIN HE ENDURED SHOULD NOT MAKE HIM CEASE FROM LOVING

THE COMPLAINT OF A DESERTED LOVER

THAT FAITH IS DEAD, AND TRUE LOVE DISREGARDED

THE LOVER COMPLAINETH THAT HIS FAITHFUL HEART AND TRUE MEANING HAD NEVER MET WITH JUST REWARD

THE FORSAKEN LOVER CONSOLETH HIMSELF WITH REMEMBRANCE OF PAST HAPPINESS

HE COMPLAINETH TO HIS HEART THAT HAVING ONCE RECOVERED HIS FREEDOM HE HAD AGAIN BECOME THRALL TO LOVE

HE PROFESSETH INDIFFERENCE

HE REJOICETH THAT HE HAD BROKEN THE SNARES OF LOVE

THE LOVER PRAYETH THAT HIS LADY’S HEART MIGHT BE INFLAMED WITH EQUAL AFFECTION

THE DISDAINFUL LADY REFUSING TO HEAR HER LOVER’S SUIT, HE RESOLVETH TO FORSAKE HER

THE ABSENT LOVER FINDETH ALL HIS PAINS REDOUBLED

HE SEEKETH COMFORT IN PATIENCE

OF THE POWER OF LOVE OVER THE YIELDEN LOVER

HE LAMENTETH THAT HE HAD EVER CAUSE TO DOUBT HIS LADY’S FAITH

THE RECURED LOVER EXULTETH IN HIS FREEDOM, AND VOWETH TO REMAIN FREE UNTIL DEATH

Poems

WYATT’S COMPLAINT UPON LOVE TO REASON, WITH LOVE’S ANSWER

COMPLAINT OF THE ABSENCE OF HIS LOVE

THE SONG OF IOPAS, UNFINISHED

Songs and Epigrams

A DESCRIPTION OF SUCH A ONE AS HE WOULD LOVE

WHY LOVE IS BLIND

THE LOVER BLAMETH HIS INSTANT DESIRE

AGAINST HOARDERS OF MONEY

DESCRIPTION OF A GUN

OF THE MOTHER THAT EAT HER CHILD AT THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM

TO HIS LOVE WHOM HE HAD KISSED AGAINST HER WILL

OF THE JEALOUS MAN THAT LOVED THE SAME WOMAN, AND ESPIED THIS OTHER SITTING WITH HER

TO HIS LOVE FROM WHOM HE HAD HER GLOVES

THE LOVER COMPLAINETH THAT DEADLY SICKNESS CANNOT HELP HIS AFFECTION

OF THE FEIGNED FRIEND

COMPARISON OF LOVE TO A STREAM FALLING FROM THE ALPS

OF HIS LOVE THAT PRICKED HER FINGER WITH A NEEDLE

OF THE SAME

THE LOVER THAT FLED LOVE NOW FOLLOWS IT WITH HIS HARM

THE LOVER COMPARETH HIS HEART TO THE OVERCHARGED GUN

HOW BY A KISS HE FOUND BOTH HIS LIFE AND DEATH

TO HIS LOVER TO LOOK UPON HIM

OF DISAPPOINTED PURPOSE BY NEGLIGENCE

OF HIS RETURN FROM SPAIN

WYATT BEING IN PRISON, TO BRYAN

OF SUCH AS HAD FORSAKEN HIM

THE LOVER HOPETH OF BETTER CHANCE

THAT PLEASURE IS MIXED WITH EVERY PAIN

THE COURTIER’S LIFE

OF THE MEAN AND SURE ESTATE

THE LOVER SUSPECTED OF CHANGE PRAYETH THAT IT BE NOT BELIEVED AGAINST HIM

OF DISSEMBLING WORDS

OF SUDDEN TRUSTING

THE LADY TO ANSWER DIRECTLY WITH YEA OR NAY

ANSWER

THE LOVER PROFESSETH HIMSELF CONSTANT

THE LOVER BLAMETH HIS LOVE FOR RENTING OF THE LETTER HE SENT HER

THE LOVER COMPLAINETH AND HIS LADY COMFORTETH

THE LOVER SUSPECTED BLAMETH ILL TONGUES

OF HIS LOVE CALLED ANNA

A RIDDLE OF A GIFT GIVEN BY A LADY

THAT SPEAKING OR PROFFERING BRINGS ALWAY SPEEDING

T. WYATT OF LOVE

Satires

OF THE MEAN AND SURE ESTATE, WRITTEN TO JOHN POINS

OF THE COURTIER’S LIFE, WRITTEN TO JOHN POINS

HOW TO USE THE COURT AND HIMSELF THEREIN, WRITTEN TO SIR FRANCIS BRIAN

Penitential Psalms

THE PROLOGUE OF THE AUTHOR

PENITENTIAL PSALMS

An Epitaph of Sir Thomas Gravener, Knight

SIR ANTONIE SENTLEGER OF SIR T. WYATT

Songs and Sonnets

THE LOVER FOR SHAMEFASTNESS HIDETH HIS DESIRE WITHIN HIS FAITHFUL HEART

THE LONG love that in my thought I harbour,

And in my heart doth keep his residence,

Into my face presseth with bold pretence,

And there campeth displaying his banner.

She that me learns to love and to suffer,   5

And wills that my trust, and lust’s negligence

Be reined by reason, shame, and reverence,

With his hardiness takes displeasure.

Wherewith love to the heart’s forest he fleeth,

Leaving his enterprise with pain and cry,   10

And there him hideth, and not appeareth.

What may I do, when my master feareth,

  But in the field with him to live and die?

  For good is the life, ending faithfully.

THE LOVER WAXETH WISER, AND WILL NOT DIE FOR AFFECTION

YET was I never of your love aggrieved,

Nor never shall while that my life doth last:

But of hating myself, that date is past;

And tears continual sore have me wearied:

I will not yet in my grave be buried;   5

Nor on my tomb your name have fixed fast,

As cruel cause, that did the spirit soon haste

From th’ unhappy bones, by great sighs stirred.

Then if a heart of amorous faith and will

Content your mind withouten doing grief;   10

Please it you so to this to do relief:

If otherwise you seek for to fulfil

  Your wrath, you err, and shall not as you ween;

  And you yourself the cause thereof have been.

THE ABUSED LOVER SEETH HIS FOLLY AND INTENDETH TO TRUST NO MORE

WAS never file yet half so well yfiled,

To file a file for any smith’s intent,

As I was made a filing instrument,

To frame other, while that I was beguiled:

But reason, lo, hath at my folly smiled,   5

And pardoned me, since that I me repent

Of my last years, and of my time mispent.

For youth led me, and falsehood me misguided.

Yet this trust I have of great apparence,

Since that deceit is aye returnable,   10

Of very force it is agreeable,

That therewithal be done the recompense:

  Then guile beguiled plained should be never;

  And the reward is little trust for ever.

THE LOVER DESCRIBETH HIS BEING STRICKEN WITH SIGHT OF HIS LOVE

THE LIVELY sparks that issue from those eyes,

Against the which there vaileth no defence,

Have pierc’d my heart, and done it none offence,

With quaking pleasure more than once or twice.

Was never man could any thing devise,   5

Sunbeams to turn with so great vehemence

To daze man’s sight, as by their bright presence

Dazed am I; much like unto the guise

Of one stricken with dint of lightning,

Blind with the stroke, and crying here and there;   10

So call I for help, I not when nor where,

The pain of my fall patiently bearing:

  For straight after the blaze, as is no wonder,

  Of deadly noise hear I the fearful thunder.

THE WAVERING LOVER WILLETH, AND DREADETH, TO MOVE HIS DESIRE

SUCH vain thought as wonted to mislead me

In desert hope, by well assured moan,

Makes me from company to live alone,

In following her whom reason bids me flee.

And after her my heart would fain be gone,   5

But armed sighs my way do stop anon,

‘Twixt hope and dread locking my liberty;

So fleeth she by gentle cruelty.

Yet as I guess, under disdainful brow

One beam of ruth is in her cloudy look:   10

Which comforts the mind, that erst for fear shook;

That bolded the way straight; then seek I how

  To utter forth the smart I bide within;

  But such it is, I not how to begin.

THE LOVER HAVING DREAMED ENJOYING OF HIS LOVE, COMPLAINETH THAT THE DREAM IS NOT EITHER LONGER OR TRUER

UNSTABLE dream, according to the place,

Be steadfast once, or else at least be true:

By tasted sweetness make me not to rue

The sudden loss of thy false, feigned grace.

By good respect, in such a dangerous case,   5

Thou broughtest not her into these tossing seas;

But madest my sprite to live, my care t’ encrease,

My body in tempest her delight t’embrace.

The body dead, the spirit had his desire;

Painless was th’ one, th’ other in delight.   10

Why then, alas, did it not keep it right,

But thus return to leap into the fire;

  And where it was at wish, could not remain?

  Such mocks of dreams do turn to deadly pain.

THE LOVER UNHAPPY BIDDETH HAPPY LOVERS REJOICE IN MAY, WHILE HE WAILETH THAT MONTH TO HIM MOST UNLUCKY

YE that in love find luck and sweet abundance,

And live in lust of joyful jollity,

Arise for shame, do way our sluggardy:

Arise, I say, do May some observance.

Let me in bed lie dreaming in mischance;   5

Let me remember my mishaps unhappy,

That me betide in May most commonly;

As one whom love list little to advance.

Stephan said true, that my nativity

Mischanced was with the ruler of May.   10

He guessed (I prove) of that the verity.

In May my wealth, and eke my wits, I say,

  Have stond so oft in such perplexity:

  Joy; let me dream of your felicity.

THE LOVER CONFESSETH HIM IN LOVE WITH PHYLLIS

IF waker care; if sudden pale colour;

If many sighs with little speech to plain:

Now joy, now woe, if they my chere distain;

For hope of small, if much to fear therefore;

To haste or