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)

    From alle wymmen mi love is lent
    And lyht on Alysoun.
    —Unknown. Alison. . .

    Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939)

    If I were tickled by the rub of love,
    A rooking girl who stole me for her side ...
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    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)