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Collected poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt

Edited by Kenneth Muir and Patricia Thomson

Wyatt, Thomas (1503?-1542)

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I Poems from the Egerton Manuscript

II.

II Satires

III.

III Penitential Psalms

[The great Macedon that out of Perse chasyd]

CVIII.

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IV.

IV Poems from the Blage Manuscript

V Poems from the Devonshire Manuscript

VI.

VI Poems from the Arundel Manuscript

VII.

VII Poems from Minor Manuscripts

VIII.

VIII Poems from Tottel's Songes and Sonettes

IX.

IX Poems from The Court of Venus and A Boke of Balettes

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[Lyke as the Swanne towardis her dethe]

Lyke as the Swanne towardis her dethe
Doeth strayn her voyse with dolefull note
Right so syng I with waste of brethe,
I dy! I dy! and you regarde yt note.

I shall enforce my faynting breth
That all that heris this dedlye note
Shall knowe that you dothe cause my deth:
I dy! I dy! and you regarde yt note.

Your vnkyndnes hath sworne my dethe,
And chaunged hathe my plesaunte note
To paynfull sighes that stoppis my brethe:
I dy! I dy! and you regarde yt note.

Consumeth my lif, faileth my brethe;
Your fawte is forger of this note,
Melting in tearis, a cruell dethe:
I dy! I dy! and you regarde yt note.

My faith with me after my dethe
Bured shalbe, and to this note
I do bequethe my wery brethe
To cry ‘I dyede and you regardid note’.