Love
My love ys lyke unto theternall fyre
From The Poems of Sir Thomas Wiat (ed. A. K. Foxwell, 1913)
Love
My love ys lyke unto theternall fyre :
And I as those whyche therin do remayn :
Whose grevous payne ys but theyre gret desyre.
To se the syght whyche they may not attayn.
So in helles heate my self I fele to be.
That am restraynd, by gret extremyte,
The syght of her whyche ys so dere to me.
O puissant love and power of gret avayle
By whome hell may be fellt or dethe assayle.
Cite this poem
MLA
Wyatt, Thomas. “My love ys lyke unto theternall fyre.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/70/.
Chicago
Wyatt, Thomas. “My love ys lyke unto theternall fyre.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/70/.
Read this poem with the Codex →