Love

Nature that gave the bee so swete a grace

by Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503–1542

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

Love

Nature that gave the bee so swete a grace
To fynd hony of so wonderous fasshion;
Hath taught the spider oute of the same place
To fetche poyson, by straynge alleration;
Tho this be straynge, it is a straynger case,
With oon kysse, by secret operation,
Boeth these at ons, in those your lippes to fynde ;
In chaunge whereof, I leve my hert behinde.

MLA

Wyatt, Thomas. “Nature that gave the bee so swete a grace.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/56/.

Chicago

Wyatt, Thomas. “Nature that gave the bee so swete a grace.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/56/.

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