| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Songs and Sonnets | | Description of the contrarious Passions in a Lover |
| | | I FIND no peace, and all my war is done; | |
| I fear and hope, I burn, and freeze like ice; | |
| I fly aloft, yet can I not arise; | |
| And nought I have, and all the world I seize on, | |
| That locks nor loseth, holdeth me in prison, | 5 |
| And holds me not, yet can I scape no wise: | |
| Nor letteth me live, nor die, at my devise, | |
| And yet of death it giveth me occasion. | |
| Without eye I see; without tongue I plain: | |
| I wish to perish, yet I ask for health; | 10 |
| I love another, and I hate myself; | |
| I feed me in sorrow, and laugh in all my pain. | |
| Lo, thus displeaseth me both death and life, | |
| And my delight is causer of this strife. | | | | |
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