| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Songs and Sonnets | | The Lover having dreamed enjoying of his Love, complaineth that the Dream is not either longer or truer |
| | | UNSTABLE dream, according to the place, | |
| Be steadfast once, or else at least be true: | |
| By tasted sweetness make me not to rue | |
| The sudden loss of thy false, feigned grace. | |
| By good respect, in such a dangerous case, | 5 |
| Thou broughtest not her into these tossing seas; | |
| But madest my sprite to live, my care t’ encrease, | |
| My body in tempest her delight t’embrace. | |
| The body dead, the spirit had his desire; | |
| Painless was th’ one, th’ other in delight. | 10 |
| Why then, alas, did it not keep it right, | |
| But thus return to leap into the fire; | |
| And where it was at wish, could not remain? | |
| Such mocks of dreams do turn to deadly pain. | | | | |
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