Love

Hate whom ye list for I kare not

by Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503–1542

From The Poems of Sir Thomas Wiat (ed. A. K. Foxwell, 1913)

Love

Hate whom ye list for I kare not :
Love whom ye list and spare not :
Do what ye list and drede not :
Think what ye liste I fere not :
For as for me I am not,
But even as one that reckes not,
Whyther ye hate or hate not ;
For in your love I dote not,
Wherefore I pray you forget not,
But love whom ye liste, for I care not.

MLA

Wyatt, Thomas. “Hate whom ye list for I kare not.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/155/.

Chicago

Wyatt, Thomas. “Hate whom ye list for I kare not.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/155/.

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