The Poetical Works by Sir Thomas Wyatt

Sir Thomas Wyatt

One hundred ninety selections from the Henrician courtier and herald of the sonnet in English.

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BOSTON: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND Co., 1880 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2011

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
An Epitaph of Sir Thomas Gravener, Knight
Sir Antonie Sentleger of Sir T. Wyatt