| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Odes | | That the Life of the unregarded Lover is worse than Death |
| | | WHAT death is worse than this! | |
| When my delight, | |
| My weal, my joy, my bliss, | |
| Is from my sight | |
| Both day and night, | 5 |
| My life, alas! I miss. | |
| For though I seem alive, | |
| My heart is hence; | |
| Thus bootless for to strive | |
| Out of presence | 10 |
| Of my defence | |
| Toward my death I drive. | |
| Heartless, alas! what man | |
| May long endure! | |
| Alas! how live I then; | 15 |
| Since no recure | |
| May me assure | |
| My life I may well ban. | |
| Thus doth my torment grow | |
| In deadly dread | 20 |
| Alas! who might live so; | |
| Alive, as dead: | |
| Alive, to lead | |
| A deadly life in woe. | | | | |
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