| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Odes | | When Fortune smiles not, only Patience comforteth |
| | | PATIENCE! though I have not | |
| The thing that I require; | |
| I must, of force, God wot, | |
| Forbear my most desire, | |
| For no ways can I find | 5 |
| To sail against the wind. | |
| Patience! do what they will | |
| To work me woe or spite; | |
| I shall content me still | |
| To think both day and night; | 10 |
| To think, and hold my peace, | |
| Since there is no redress. | |
| Patience! withouten blame, | |
| For I offended nought; | |
| I know they know the same, | 15 |
| Though they have changed their thought. | |
| Was ever thought so moved, | |
| To hate that it hath loved? | |
| Patience of all my harm, | |
| For Fortune is my foe; | 20 |
| Patience must be the charm | |
| To heal me of my woe. | |
| Patience without offence | |
| Is a painful Patience. | | | | |
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