Thomas Wyatt First line index.

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IR THOMAS WYATT

POEMS First Line index

Thomas Wyatt

POEMS

Taken from the edition by A. K. Foxwell, University of London Press, 1913, and with modern versions and notes appended.

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R Rondeaus ML Later misc. poems

S Sonnets Da Poems from D, part I

E Epigrams Db Poems from D, part II

M Misc. poems X Poems absent from E & D

Sa Satires T Poems from Tottel

E29 A face that should content me wondrous well

E8 A lady gave me a gift she had not,

M20 A Robin / Jolly Robin

Sa3 A spending hand that alway poureth out

Db21 Absence absenting causeth me to complain

T1 Accused though I be without desert,

ML3 After great storms the calm returns

Db10 Ah, my heart, ah! what aileth thee?

E3 Alas madame for stealing of a kiss,

Da10 Alas poor man what hap have I

M1 Alas the grief and deadly woeful smart,

ML4 All heavy minds

E23 All in thy sight my life doth whole depend.

ML11 And if an eye may save or slay

Da12 And wilt thou leave me thus ?

Da14 As power and wit will me assist

Da5 At last withdraw your cruelty

M17 At most mischief

S15 Avising the bright beams of these fair eyes,

S11 Because I have thee still kept from lies and blame

R1 Behold love, thy power how she despiseth:

Da29 Blame not my lute for he must sound,

S1 Caesar, when that the traitor of Egypt,

M33 Comfort thy self my woeful heart,

Db25 Deem as ye list, upon good cause

E14 Desire alas, my master and my foe

X2 Disdain me not without desert

S23 Divers doth use, as I have heard and know,

M23 Divers doth use, as I have heard and know,

Db19 Driven by desire I did this deed,

S5 Each man me telleth I change most my device,

S16 Ever mine hap is slack and slow in coming,

Da9 Farewell all my welfare,

S7 Farewell Love and all thy laws for ever,

M5 Farewell, the reign of cruelty:

E26 For shamefast harm, of great and hatefull need,

R3 For to love her for her looks lovely

T5 For want of will, in woe I plain

Da27 Forget not yet the tried intent

E19 From these high hills as when a spring doth fall,

Da22 Full well it may be seen

Db4 Give place all ye that doth rejoice

R7 Go burning sighs! unto the frozen heart

Db12 Grudge on who list, this is my lot

Db11 Hate whom ye list for I care not.

E10 He is not dead that sometime hath a fall;

M32 Heaven and earth and all that here me plain,

R4 Help me to seek for I lost it there,

S18 How oft have I, my dear and cruel foe,

Da21 How should I

S22 I abide and abide and better abide,

Db26 I am as I am and so will I be,

S12 I find no peace and all my war is done,

M28 I have sought long with stedfastness

E18 I lead a life unpleasant, nothing glad.

Da3 I love, loved and so doth she,

T9 I see that chance hath chosen me

S6 If amour's faith, an heart unfeigned,

M27 If chance assigned

T6 If ever man might him avaunt

M16 If fancy would favour,

ML8 If in the world there be more woe

R5 If it be so that I forsake thee,

T14 If thou wilt mighty be, flee from the rage

S28 If waker care; if sudden pale colour;

Db1 If with complaint the pain might be expressed,

M30 In aeternum I was once determined,

E28 In court to serve, deckèd with fresh array,

E16 In doubtful breast, whilst motherly pity

M8 In faith I wot not well what to say,

Da17 In faith methinks it is no right

Da11 Is it possible,

T11 It burneth yet, alas, my heart's desire.

M6 It may be good, like it who list,

Da19 It was my choice it was no chance

Db8 Lament my loss, my labour, and my pain,

X5 Like as the bird in the cage enclosed

M29 Like as the swan towards her death

X3 Like as the wind with raging blast

S19 Like to these unmeasurable mountains,

Da24 Lo how I seek and sow to have

ML7 Lo, what it is to love!

Db15 Longer to muse

S17 Love and fortune and my mind, rememberer

Db16 Love doth again

T11 Lover. It burneth yet, alas, my heart's desire.

E30 Lucks, my fair falcon, and your fellows all,

M9 Madame, withouten many words,

M18 Marvel no more although

Db5 Me list no more to sing

M4 Mine old dear enemy, my froward master,

Sa1 Mine own John Poyns, since ye delight to know

T8 Mistrustful minds be moved

ML10 Most wretched heart most miserable,

S14 My galley charged with forgetfulness,

S8 My heart I gave thee not to do it pain,

M24 My hope, alas, hath me abused

M20 My lady is unkind, perdy!

E27 My love is like unto the eternal fire

S24 My love took scorn my service to retain

M26 My lute awake! perform the last

Sa2 My mother's maids when they did sow and spin

Da2 My pen, take pain a little space

E13 Nature that gave the bee so feat a grace

Db18 Now all of change

Da26 Now must I learn to live at rest

ML6 O goodly hand

Da28 O miserable sorrow withouten cure

M2 O restfull place, renewer of my smart;

E17 Of Carthage he, that worthy warrior

E21 Of purpose Love chose first for to be blind,

M25 Once as me thought fortune me kissed,

Db7 Pain of all pain the most grievous pain

T2 Pass forth my wonted cries

M14 Patience for my device;

Da16 Patience of all my smart

M13 Patience! tho' I have not

Db27 Patience, for I have wrong,

Db20 Perdy I said it not

ML2 Process of time worketh such wonder,

M7 Resound my voice: ye woods that hear me plain,

E6 Right true it is, and said full yore ago:

E2 She sat and sewed that hath done me the wrong

E31 Sighs are my food, drink are my tears

Da23 Since love is such, that as ye wot,

T4 Since love will needs that I shall love,

M31 Since ye delight to know,

Da25 Since ye so please to here me plain,

Db2 Since you will needs that I shall sing,

ML13 So feeble is the thread that doth the burden stay

Da20 So unwarely was never no man caught

S10 Some fowls there be that have so perfect sight

E9 Some time I fled the fire that me burnt,

Da15 Sometime I sigh, sometime I sing,

T13 Speak thou and speed where will or power ought help'th

Db9 Spite hath no power to make me sad,

X6 Stand who so list upon the slipper top

M10 Such hap as I am happèd in,

S30 Such is the course that nature's kind hath wrought

M30 Such is the course that nature's kind hath wrought

S21 Such vain thought as wonted to mislead me

Da4 Suffering in sorrow in hope to attain,

T12 Sufficed not (Madame) that you did tear

E20 Tagus, farewell, that westward, with thy streams,

Da1 Take heed betimes lest ye be spied

Db14 Tangled I was in love's snare,

Da13 That time that mirth did steer my ship,

ML9 The answer that ye made to me my dear

E12 The enemy of life, decayer of all kind,

S31 The flaming sighs that boil within my breast

M31 The flaming sighs that boil within my breast

E24 The fruit of all the service that I serve

E11 The furious gun, in his raging ire,

Da8 The heart and service to you proffered

Db6 The joy so short alas, the pain so near,

Da18 The knot which first my heart did strain,

S20 The lively sparks that issue from those eyes,

S2 The long love that in my thought doth harbour

S29 The pillar perished is whereto I leant,

M3 The restful place, reviver of my smart;

E4 The wandering gadling in the summer tide,

S9 There was never file half so well filed,

M12 There was never nothing more me pained,

M11 They flee from me, that sometime did me seek

R6 Thou hast no faith of him that hath none,

M21 Though I cannot your cruelty constrain,

S13 Though I my self be bridled of my mind,

ML1 Though this [be thy] port and I thy servant true,

T10 Throughout the world if it were sought,

M34 To cause accord or to agree

Db23 To make an end of all this strife

S25 To rail or jest ye know I use it not

ML5 To seek each where, where man doth live,

Da6 To wet your eye withouten tear,

X1 To whom should I sue to ease my pain?

M22 To wish and want and not obtain

X4 Under this stone there lieth at rest

S26 Unstable dream, according to the place,

E15 Venemous thorns that are so sharp and keen,

E22 Vulcan begat me. Minerva me taught.

S4 Was I never yet of your love grieved,

T7 What first mine eyes did view and mark

Da7 What meaneth this, when I lie alone

E5 What needeth these threning words and wasted wind,

R9 What no, perdy, ye may be sure!

ML12 What rage is this? What furor of what kind?

Db3 What should I say

Db13 What should I say

R2 What vaileth truth? or by it to take pain?

E7 What word is that that changeth not,

ML14 When Dido feasted first the wandering Trojan knight,

Db22 When that I call unto my mind

M19 Where shall I have at mine own will

E1 Who hath heard of such cruelty before?

S3 Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,

Db24 Will ye see what wonders love hath wrought,

Db17 With serving still

E25 Within my breast I never thought it gain

M15 Ye know my heart my lady dear,

R8 Ye old mule that think your self so fair,

S27 You that in love find luck and abundance,

T3 Your looks so often cast,

The text of this edition is taken from The Poems of Sir Thomas Wiat edited by A.K. Foxwell, London 1913. The modern spelling version and the notes are provided by the Webmaster of this site. The notes are not intended to be exhaustive, but to provide the minimum assistance to students for whom the poems are new.

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R	Rondeaus	ML	Later misc. poems
S	Sonnets	Da	Poems from D, part I
E	Epigrams	Db	Poems from D, part II
M	Misc. poems	X	Poems absent from E & D
Sa	Satires	T	Poems from Tottel

E29	A face that should content me wondrous well
E8	A lady gave me a gift she had not,
M20	A Robin / Jolly Robin
Sa3	A spending hand that alway poureth out
Db21	Absence absenting causeth me to complain
T1	Accused though I be without desert,
ML3	After great storms the calm returns
Db10	Ah, my heart, ah! what aileth thee?
E3	Alas madame for stealing of a kiss,
Da10	Alas poor man what hap have I
M1	Alas the grief and deadly woeful smart,
ML4	All heavy minds
E23	All in thy sight my life doth whole depend.
ML11	And if an eye may save or slay
Da12	And wilt thou leave me thus ?
Da14	As power and wit will me assist
Da5	At last withdraw your cruelty
M17	At most mischief
S15	Avising the bright beams of these fair eyes,
S11	Because I have thee still kept from lies and blame
R1	Behold love, thy power how she despiseth:
Da29	Blame not my lute for he must sound,
S1	Caesar, when that the traitor of Egypt,
M33	Comfort thy self my woeful heart,
Db25	Deem as ye list, upon good cause
E14	Desire alas, my master and my foe
X2	Disdain me not without desert
S23	Divers doth use, as I have heard and know,
M23	Divers doth use, as I have heard and know,
Db19	Driven by desire I did this deed,
S5	Each man me telleth I change most my device,
S16	Ever mine hap is slack and slow in coming,
Da9	Farewell all my welfare,
S7	Farewell Love and all thy laws for ever,
M5	Farewell, the reign of cruelty:
E26	For shamefast harm, of great and hatefull need,
R3	For to love her for her looks lovely
T5	For want of will, in woe I plain
Da27	Forget not yet the tried intent
E19	From these high hills as when a spring doth fall,
Da22	Full well it may be seen
Db4	Give place all ye that doth rejoice
R7	Go burning sighs! unto the frozen heart
Db12	Grudge on who list, this is my lot
Db11	Hate whom ye list for I care not.
E10	He is not dead that sometime hath a fall;
M32	Heaven and earth and all that here me plain,
R4	Help me to seek for I lost it there,
S18	How oft have I, my dear and cruel foe,
Da21	How should I
S22	I abide and abide and better abide,
Db26	I am as I am and so will I be,
S12	I find no peace and all my war is done,
M28	I have sought long with stedfastness
E18	I lead a life unpleasant, nothing glad.
Da3	I love, loved and so doth she,
T9	I see that chance hath chosen me
S6	If amour's faith, an heart unfeigned,
M27	If chance assigned
T6	If ever man might him avaunt
M16	If fancy would favour,
ML8	If in the world there be more woe
R5	If it be so that I forsake thee,
T14	If thou wilt mighty be, flee from the rage
S28	If waker care; if sudden pale colour;
Db1	If with complaint the pain might be expressed,
M30	In aeternum I was once determined,
E28	In court to serve, deckèd with fresh array,
E16	In doubtful breast, whilst motherly pity
M8	In faith I wot not well what to say,
Da17	In faith methinks it is no right
Da11	Is it possible,
T11	It burneth yet, alas, my heart's desire.
M6	It may be good, like it who list,
Da19	It was my choice it was no chance
Db8	Lament my loss, my labour, and my pain,
X5	Like as the bird in the cage enclosed
M29	Like as the swan towards her death
X3	Like as the wind with raging blast
S19	Like to these unmeasurable mountains,
Da24	Lo how I seek and sow to have
ML7	Lo, what it is to love!
Db15	Longer to muse
S17	Love and fortune and my mind, rememberer
Db16	Love doth again
T11	Lover. It burneth yet, alas, my heart's desire.
E30	Lucks, my fair falcon, and your fellows all,
M9	Madame, withouten many words,
M18	Marvel no more although
Db5	Me list no more to sing
M4	Mine old dear enemy, my froward master,
Sa1	Mine own John Poyns, since ye delight to know
T8	Mistrustful minds be moved
ML10	Most wretched heart most miserable,
S14	My galley charged with forgetfulness,
S8	My heart I gave thee not to do it pain,
M24	My hope, alas, hath me abused
M20	My lady is unkind, perdy!
E27	My love is like unto the eternal fire
S24	My love took scorn my service to retain
M26	My lute awake! perform the last
Sa2	My mother's maids when they did sow and spin
Da2	My pen, take pain a little space
E13	Nature that gave the bee so feat a grace
Db18	Now all of change
Da26	Now must I learn to live at rest
ML6	O goodly hand
Da28	O miserable sorrow withouten cure
M2	O restfull place, renewer of my smart;
E17	Of Carthage he, that worthy warrior
E21	Of purpose Love chose first for to be blind,
M25	Once as me thought fortune me kissed,
Db7	Pain of all pain the most grievous pain
T2	Pass forth my wonted cries
M14	Patience for my device;
Da16	Patience of all my smart
M13	Patience! tho' I have not
Db27	Patience, for I have wrong,
Db20	Perdy I said it not
ML2	Process of time worketh such wonder,
M7	Resound my voice: ye woods that hear me plain,
E6	Right true it is, and said full yore ago:
E2	She sat and sewed that hath done me the wrong
E31	Sighs are my food, drink are my tears
Da23	Since love is such, that as ye wot,
T4	Since love will needs that I shall love,
M31	Since ye delight to know,
Da25	Since ye so please to here me plain,
Db2	Since you will needs that I shall sing,
ML13	So feeble is the thread that doth the burden stay
Da20	So unwarely was never no man caught
S10	Some fowls there be that have so perfect sight
E9	Some time I fled the fire that me burnt,
Da15	Sometime I sigh, sometime I sing,
T13	Speak thou and speed where will or power ought help'th
Db9	Spite hath no power to make me sad,
X6	Stand who so list upon the slipper top
M10	Such hap as I am happèd in,
S30	Such is the course that nature's kind hath wrought
M30	Such is the course that nature's kind hath wrought
S21	Such vain thought as wonted to mislead me
Da4	Suffering in sorrow in hope to attain,
T12	Sufficed not (Madame) that you did tear
E20	Tagus, farewell, that westward, with thy streams,
Da1	Take heed betimes lest ye be spied
Db14	Tangled I was in love's snare,
Da13	That time that mirth did steer my ship,
ML9	The answer that ye made to me my dear
E12	The enemy of life, decayer of all kind,
S31	The flaming sighs that boil within my breast
M31	The flaming sighs that boil within my breast
E24	The fruit of all the service that I serve
E11	The furious gun, in his raging ire,
Da8	The heart and service to you proffered
Db6	The joy so short alas, the pain so near,
Da18	The knot which first my heart did strain,
S20	The lively sparks that issue from those eyes,
S2	The long love that in my thought doth harbour
S29	The pillar perished is whereto I leant,
M3	The restful place, reviver of my smart;
E4	The wandering gadling in the summer tide,
S9	There was never file half so well filed,
M12	There was never nothing more me pained,
M11	They flee from me, that sometime did me seek
R6	Thou hast no faith of him that hath none,
M21	Though I cannot your cruelty constrain,
S13	Though I my self be bridled of my mind,
ML1	Though this [be thy] port and I thy servant true,
T10	Throughout the world if it were sought,
M34	To cause accord or to agree
Db23	To make an end of all this strife
S25	To rail or jest ye know I use it not
ML5	To seek each where, where man doth live,
Da6	To wet your eye withouten tear,
X1	To whom should I sue to ease my pain?
M22	To wish and want and not obtain
X4	Under this stone there lieth at rest
S26	Unstable dream, according to the place,
E15	Venemous thorns that are so sharp and keen,
E22	Vulcan begat me. Minerva me taught.
S4	Was I never yet of your love grieved,
T7	What first mine eyes did view and mark
Da7	What meaneth this, when I lie alone
E5	What needeth these threning words and wasted wind,
R9	What no, perdy, ye may be sure!
ML12	What rage is this? What furor of what kind?
Db3	What should I say
Db13	What should I say
R2	What vaileth truth? or by it to take pain?
E7	What word is that that changeth not,
ML14	When Dido feasted first the wandering Trojan knight,
Db22	When that I call unto my mind
M19	Where shall I have at mine own will
E1	Who hath heard of such cruelty before?
S3	Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,
Db24	Will ye see what wonders love hath wrought,
Db17	With serving still
E25	Within my breast I never thought it gain
M15	Ye know my heart my lady dear,
R8	Ye old mule that think your self so fair,
S27	You that in love find luck and abundance,
T3	Your looks so often cast,