Love

Suffised not (Madame) that you did teare

by Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503–1542

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

Love

Suffised not (Madame) that you did teare
) My wofull hart, but thus also to rent
The weping paper that to you I sent,
Wherof eche letter was written with a teare.

Could not my present paines, alas, suffise
Your greedy hart ? and that my hart doth fele
Tormentes that prick more sharper then the stele,
But new and new must to my lot arise ?

Use then my death. So shal your cruelty.
Spite of your spite rid me from all my smart,
And I no more such tormentes of the hart
Fele as I do. This shalt thou gain thereby.

MLA

Wyatt, Thomas. “Suffised not (Madame) that you did teare.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/181/.

Chicago

Wyatt, Thomas. “Suffised not (Madame) that you did teare.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/181/.

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