| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | My Lady’s Hand | | By Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) |
| | | O GOODLY hand! | |
| Wherein doth stand | |
| My heart distraught in pain; | |
| Dear hand, alas! | |
| In little space | 5 |
| My life thou dost restrain. | |
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| O fingers slight! | |
| Departed right, | |
| So long, so small, so round; | |
| Goodly begone, | 10 |
| And yet a bone, | |
| Most cruel in my wound. | |
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| With lilies white | |
| And roses bright | |
| Doth strain thy colour fair; | 15 |
| Nature did lend | |
| Each finger’s end | |
| A pearl for to repair. | |
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| Consent at last, | |
| Since that thou hast | 20 |
| My heart in thy demesne | |
| For service true | |
| On me to rue, | |
| And reach me love again. | |
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| And if not so, | 25 |
| There with more woe | |
| Enforce thyself to strain | |
| This simple heart, | |
| That suffer’d smart, | |
| And rid it out of pain. | 30 | | | |
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