How by a Kiss he found both his Life and Death. Songs and Epigrams. Sir Thomas Wyatt. 1880. The Poetical Works

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880.

Songs and Epigrams

How by a Kiss he found both his Life and Death


NATURE, that gave the bee so feat a grace
To find honey of so wondrous fashion,
Hath taught the spider out of the same place
To fetch poison by strange alteration;
Though this be strange, it is a stranger case	5
With one kiss by secret operation
Both these at once in those your lips to find;
In change whereof I leave my heart behind.