| Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–47). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Songs and Sonnets | | Of the Death of Sir Thomas Wyatt |
| | | DIVERS thy death do diversely bemoan: | |
| Some, that in presence of thy livelihed | |
| Lurked, whose breasts envy with hate had swoln, | |
| Yield Cæsar’s tears upon Pompeius’ head. | |
| Some, that watched with the murd’rer’s knife, | 5 |
| With eager thirst to drink thy guiltless blood, | |
| Whose practice brake by happy end of life, | |
| With envious tears to hear thy fame so good. | |
| But I, that knew what harbour’d in that head; | |
| What virtues rare were tempered in that breast, | 10 |
| Honour the place that such a jewel bred, | |
| And kiss the ground whereas the corpse doth rest; | |
| With vapour’d eyes: from whence such streams availe, 1 | |
| As Pyramus did on Thisbe’s breast bewail. | |
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