Love

Like to these unmesurable montayns

by Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503–1542

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

Love

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.

MLA

Wyatt, Thomas. “Like to these unmesurable montayns.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/32/.

Chicago

Wyatt, Thomas. “Like to these unmesurable montayns.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/32/.

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