Love

If waker care ; if sodayne pale Coulor

by Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503–1542

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

Love

If waker care ; if sodayne pale Coulor ;
If many sighes, with litle speche to playne,
Now Joy, now woo if they my chere distayne,
For hope of small, if muche to fere therfore ;

To hast to slake my passe lesse or more.
By signe of love, then do I love agayne.
If thou ask whome; sure, sins I did refrayne
Brunet, that set my welth in such a rore,

Thunfayned chere of Phillis hath the place
That Brunet had; she hath and ever shal.
She from my self now hath me in her grace

She hath in hand my witt, my will, my all :
My hert alone wel worthie she doeth staye.
Without whose helpe, skant do I live a daye.

MLA

Wyatt, Thomas. “If waker care ; if sodayne pale Coulor.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/41/.

Chicago

Wyatt, Thomas. “If waker care ; if sodayne pale Coulor.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/41/.

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