Love
Like to these unmesurable montayns
From The Poems of Sir Thomas Wiat (ed. A. K. Foxwell, 1913)
Like to these unmesurable montayns.
Is my painfull lyff the burden of Ire,
For of great height be they, and high is my desire ;
And I of teres, and they be full of fontayns ;
Under craggy rockes they have full barren playns :
Hard thoughtes in me, my wofull mynde doeth tyre;
Small fruyt and many leves their toppes do atyre :
Small effect with great trust in me remayns.
The boyseus wyndes oft their high bowghes do blast :
Hote sighes from me continuelly be shed ;
Cattell in theim : and in me love is fed;
Immoveable ame I : and they are full stedfast;
Of that restles birdes they have the tune and note :
And I alwayes plaintes that passe thorough my throte.
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Wyatt, Thomas. “Like to these unmesurable montayns.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/32/.
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Wyatt, Thomas. “Like to these unmesurable montayns.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/32/.
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