Love

My love ys lyke unto theternall fyre

by Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503–1542

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.

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/.

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