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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BALLADE: 28, by THOMAS WYATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To make an end of all this strife Last Line: This end to make. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery | |||
To make an end of all this strife, No longer time for to sustain, But now with death to change the life Of him that lives always in pain; Despair such power hath in his hand, That helpeth most I know certain May not withstand. May not withstand that is elect By fortune's most extremity; But all in worth to be except Withouten law or liberty; What vaileth then unto my thought? If right can have no remedy, There vaileth naught. There vaileth naught, but all in vain; The fault thereof may none amend But only death, for to constrain This spiteful hap to have an end: So great disdain doth me provoke That dread of death cannot defend This deadly stroke. This deadly stroke, whereby shall cease The harbored sighs within my heart, And for the gift of this release My hand in haste shall play his part, To do this cure against his kind, For change of life from long desert To place assigned. To place assigned forevermore, Now by constraint I do agree To loose the bond of my restore, Wherein is bound my liberty; Death and despair doth undertake From all mishap now hardily This end to make. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PARTHENOPHIL AND PARTHENOPHE: MADRIGAL 14 by BARNABE BARNES SONNETS IN SHADOWS: 1 by ARLO BATES IN PRAISE OF PAIN by HEATHER MCHUGH THE SYMPATIZERS by JOSEPHINE MILES |
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