| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Odes | | The Lover prayeth that his Lady’s Heart might be inflamed with equal Affection |
| | | LOVE doth again | |
| Put me to pain, | |
| And yet all is but lost. | |
| I serve in vain, | |
| And am certain, | 5 |
| Of all misliked most. | |
| Both heat and cold | |
| Doth so me hold, | |
| And comber so my mind; | |
| That whom I should | 10 |
| Speak and behold, | |
| It driveth me still behind. | |
| My wits be past, | |
| My life doth waste, | |
| My comfort is exiled; | 15 |
| And I in haste, | |
| Am like to taste | |
| How love hath me beguiled. | |
| Unless that right | |
| May in her sight | 20 |
| Obtain pity and grace; | |
| Why should a wight | |
| Have beauty bright, | |
| If mercy have no place. | |
| Yet I, alas! | 25 |
| Am in such case; | |
| That back I cannot go; | |
| But still forth trace | |
| A patient pace, | |
| And suffer secret woe. | 30 |
| For with the wind | |
| My fired mind | |
| Doth still inflame; | |
| And she unkind | |
| That did me bind, | 35 |
| Doth turn it all to game. | |
| Yet can no pain | |
| Make me refrain, | |
| Nor here and there to range; | |
| I shall retain | 40 |
| Hope to obtain | |
| Her heart that is so strange. | |
| But I require | |
| The painful fire, | |
| That oft doth make me sweat; | 45 |
| For all my ire, | |
| With like desire, | |
| To give her heart a heat. | |
| Then she shall prove | |
| How I her love, | 50 |
| And what I have offer’d; | |
| Which should her move, | |
| For to remove | |
| The pains that I have suffer’d. | |
| And better fee | 55 |
| Than she gave me, | |
| She shall of me attain; | |
| For whereas she | |
| Shewed cruelty, | |
| She shall my heart obtain. | 60 | | | |
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