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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

A Description of Such a One as He would Love

By Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542)

A FACE that should content me wondrous well

Should not be fair, but lovely to behold;

Of lively look, all grief for to repel;

With right good grace, so would I that it should

Speak without word, such words as none can tell:

Her tress also should be of crispèd gold;

With wit and these perchance I might be tried,

And knit again with knot that should not slide.