Love

If amours faith, an hert unfayned

by Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503–1542

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

Love

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.

MLA

Wyatt, Thomas. “If amours faith, an hert unfayned.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/19/.

Chicago

Wyatt, Thomas. “If amours faith, an hert unfayned.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/19/.

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