William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.
My Ladys HandSir Thomas Wyatt (15031542)
O
Wherein doth stand
My heart distraught in pain;
Dear hand, alas!
In little space
My life thou dost restrain.
Departed right,
So long, so small, so round;
Goodly begone,
And yet a bone,
Most cruel in my wound.
And roses bright
Doth strain thy colour fair;
Nature did lend
Each finger’s end
A pearl for to repair.
Since that thou hast
My heart in thy demesne
For service true
On me to rue,
And reach me love again.
There with more woe
Enforce thyself to strain
This simple heart,
That suffer’d smart,
And rid it out of pain.