Famous quotes containing the words sir thomas wyatt, sir, thomas and/or wyatt:
“Help me to seek, for I lost it there
And if that ye have found it, ye that be here,
And seek to convey it secretly,
Handle it soft and treat it tenderly,
Or else it will plain and then appear:”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)
“Haf owre, haf owre to Aberdour,
It’s fiftie fadom deip,
And thair lies guid Sir Patrick Spence,
Wi the Scots lords at his feit.”
—Unknown. Sir Patrick Spens (l. 41–44)
“There is not any book
Or face of dearest look
That I would not turn from now
To go into the unknown
I must enter, and leave, alone,
I know not how.”
—Edward Thomas (1878–1917)
“What should I say,
Since faith is dead,
And truth away
From you is fled?
Should I be led
With doubleness?”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)