Love

Unstable dreme, according to the place

by Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503–1542

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

Love

Unstable dreme, according to the place,
Be stedfast ons : or els at leist be true :
By tasted swetenes make me not to few
The sudden losse of thy fals fayned grace,

By goode respect, In such a daungerous case.
Thou broughtes not her into this tossing mew;
But madest my sprite lyve my care to renew,
My body in tempest her succor to embrace.

The body ded, the spryt had his desir
Paynles was thon) : thothr in delight;
Why then, alas, did it not kepe it right,

Retorning to lepe into the fire ?
And where it was at wysshe it could not remain.
Such mockes of dremes they torne to dedly pain.

MLA

Wyatt, Thomas. “Unstable dreme, according to the place.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/39/.

Chicago

Wyatt, Thomas. “Unstable dreme, according to the place.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/39/.

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