Famous quotes containing the words sir thomas wyatt, sir thomas, sir, thomas and/or wyatt:
“Nothing on earth more would I have,
Save that I have, to have it still.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?1542)
“Madame, withouten many wordes,
Ons I ame sure ye will or no;
And if ye will, then leve your bordes,
And use your wit and shew it so.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?1542)
“Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time,
Each form is exquisite, each block sublime.
Or good, or bad,disfigurd, or depravd,
All art, is at its resurrection savd;
All crownd with glory in the critics heavn,
Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven.”
—Martin Archer, Sir Shee (17691850)
“Not from this anger after
Refusal struck like a bell under water
Shall her smile breed that mouth, behind the mirror,
That burns along my eyes.”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“My lute awake! perform the last
Labour that thou and I shall waste,
And end that I have now begun;
For when this song is sung and past,
My lute be still, for I have done.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?1542)