Love

The restfull place, revyver of my smarte

by Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503–1542

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

Love

The restfull place, revyver of my smarte :
The labors salve, incressyng my sorow :
The bodys ese, and trobler off my hart :
Quieter of mynd, and my unquyet foo :
Fforgetter of payn, remembryng my woo :
The place of slepe, wherin I do but wake
Be sprent with teres, my bed, I the forsake.

The frost, the snow, may not redresse my hete :
Nor yet no heate abate my fervent cold :
I know nothyng to ese my paynes mete :
Eche care cawsythe increse by twenty fold :
Revyvyng carys upon my sorows old,
Suche overthwart affectes they do me make :
By sprent with terys my bed for to forsake.

Yet helpythe yt not : I fynd no better ese
In bed or owt ; thys moste cawsythe my payn :
Where most I seke how beste that I may plese.
My lost labor, alas, ys all in vayn :
Yet that I gave I cannot call agayn :
No place fro me my greffe away can take
Wherefore with terys my bed I the forsake.

MLA

Wyatt, Thomas. “The restfull place, revyver of my smarte.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/75/.

Chicago

Wyatt, Thomas. “The restfull place, revyver of my smarte.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wyatt/75/.

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