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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BALLADE: 33, by THOMAS WYATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since that my language without eloquence Last Line: And I mine own, that yours may not. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Friendship; Language; Words; Vocabulary | |||
Since that my language without eloquence Is plain, unpainted, and not unknown, Dispatch answer with ready utterance: The question is 'yours?' or else 'mine own?' To be upholden and still to fawn, I know no cause of such obedience. To have such corn as seed was sown, That is the worst. Therefore give sentence. But if your will be in this case To uphold me still, what needeth that? Sith 'yea' or 'nay' my question was, So long delay it needeth not. If I have 'yea' then have I that That I have sought to bring to pass. If I have 'nay' yet reck I not. Where naught is got, there is no loss. The 'yea' desired, the 'nay' not. No grief so great, nor desire so sore But that I may forbear to dote. If 'yea,' forever. If 'nay', no more To trouble ye thus. Speak on therefore. If that ye will, say 'yea.' If not, We shall be friends even as before, And I mine own, that yours may not. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOWYOUBEENS' by TERRANCE HAYES MY LIFE: REASON LOOKS FOR TWO, THEN ARRANGES IT FROM THERE by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: THE BEST WORDS by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN CANADA IN ENGLISH by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THERE IS NO WORD by TONY HOAGLAND CONSIDERED SPEECH by JOHN HOLLANDER |
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