Alas! so all Things now do Hold their Peace

Alas! so all Things now do Hold their Peace

Original Text
Nott, George Fred., ed. The Works of Henry Howard earl of Surrey and of Sir Thomas Wyatt the elder. London: Longman, 1815-16. 2 vols. PR 2370 A1 1815 ROBA.
2Heaven and earth disturbed in nothing.
3The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease,
5Calm is the sea, the waves work less and less:
6So am not I, whom love, alas, doth wring,
7Bringing before my face the great increase
8Of my desires, whereat I weep and sing
9In joy and woe, as in a doubtful ease.
10For my sweet thoughts sometime do pleasure bring,
12Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting,
13When that I think what grief it is again
14To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.

Notes

1] Tottel's title: "A complaint by night of the louer not beloued." An adaptation of Petrarch's 145th (113th) sonnet. Back to Line
4] chare: perhaps from charet: chariot, car; but derived from Petrarch's "carro": the Great Bear. Back to Line
11] disease: dis-ease, discomfort. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1557
RPO poem Editors
F. D. Hoeniger
RPO Edition
3RP 1.12.
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