Sir Thomas Wyatt

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    My most desire my hand may reach,
    My will is alway at my hand;
    Me need not long for to beseech
    Her that hath power me to command.
    Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    Well! If the Bard was weather-wise, who made
    The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence,
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    Tangled was I in Love’s snare.
    Oppressed with pain, torment with care;
    Of grief right sure, of joy quite bare,
    Clean in despair by cruelty.
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    And graven with diamonds in letters plain
    There is written her fair neck round about:
    “Noli me tangere for Caesar’s I am,
    And wild for to hold though I seem tame.”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)