Love
If amours faith, an hert unfayned
From The Poems of Sir Thomas Wiat (ed. A. K. Foxwell, 1913)
If amours faith, an hert unfayned,
A swete languor a great lovely desir :
If honest will kyndelled in gentill fier :
If long error in a blynde maze chayned :
If in my visage, eche thought depaynted :
Or els in my sperklyng voyse lower or higher,
Which no we fere, nowe shame, wofully doth tyer :
If a pale colour which love hath stayned :
If to have an other then myself more dere :
Yf walling and sighting continuelly,
With sorrowfull anger feding bissely :
Yf burning a farr of : and fresing nere
Ar cause that by love my self I destroye.
Yours is the fault and myn the great annoye.
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Wyatt, Thomas. “If amours faith, an hert unfayned.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/19/.
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Wyatt, Thomas. “If amours faith, an hert unfayned.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/19/.
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