Death & Dying
A Second Tribute to Wyatt
From Poems (ed. Padelford, 1920)
Dyvers thy death doo dyverslye bemone.
Some, that in presence of that livelye hedd
Lurked, whose brestes envye with hate had sowne,
Yeld Cesars teres vppon Pompeius hedd.
Some, that watched with the murdrers knyfe,
With egre thurst to drynke thy guyltles blood,
Whose practyse brake by happye end of lyfe,
Weape envyous teares to here thy fame so good.
But I that knewe what harbourd in that hedd,
What vertues rare were temperd in that brest,
Honour the place that such a iewell bredd,
And kysse the ground, where as thy coorse doth rest,
With vaporde eyes; from whence suche streames avayle
As Pyramus did on Thisbes brest bewrayle.
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Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey. “A Second Tribute to Wyatt.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/surrey/44/.
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Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey. “A Second Tribute to Wyatt.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/surrey/44/.
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