They Flee From Me and other poems

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jul 4, 2025

In Category - Lyric

Authors: Thomas Wyatt In Year : 1831

Book Language: English

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SONNETS: The Lover Sheweth How He is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed
The Lover for Shamefastness Hideth his Desire within his Faithful Heart
Of the Folly of Loving When the Season of Love is Past
The Lover Compareth His State to a Ship in Perilous Storm Tossed on the Sea
The Lover Despairing To Attain Unto His Lady's Grace Relinquisheth the Pursuit
Of Others' Feigned Sorrow, and the Lover's Feigned Mirth
The Lover's Life Compared to the Alps
The Lover Laments the Death of his Love
How the Lover Perisheth in His Delight as the Fly in the Fire
ODES: The Lover Complaineth the Unkindness of His Love
The Lover's Lute Cannot Be Blamed Though It Sing of His Lady's Unkindness
When Fortune Smiles Not, Only Patience Comforteth
The Dying Lover Complaineth That His Mistress Regardeth Not His Sufferings
SONGS AND EPIGRAMS: Of the Mother That Eat Her Child at the Siege of Jerusalem
The Lover Compareth His Heart to the Overcharged Gun
Of Such As Had Forsaken Him
Comparison of Love to a Stream Falling from the Alps
Of Disappointed Purpose by Negligence
Of His Return from Spain
SATIRE: Of the Mean and Sure Estate, Written to John Poins
EPITAPH: Sir Antonie Sentleger of Sir T. Wyatt

Sir Thomas Wyatt was an English poet, courtier and ambassador for King Henry VIII, who sent him on Embassies to the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V. Wyatt's poetry is little read these days, perhaps because of the archaic nature of his language, but he was an important poet in his own day as he introduced into English poetry many ideas and techniques from other languages particularly Italian. He used the Sonnet form developed by Petrarch and verse forms used by Dante and others. His work influenced later Tudor poets including Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare. Wyatt's poems tend to be better known by their opening lines than their actual titles but this project will use the full titles. Wyatt was rumoured to have been the lover of Anne Boleyn to whom he addressed several poems including the rather unflattering "Ye Olde Mule" written after she married Henry VIII. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)