StoryTitle("caps", "To His Lute") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My lute, awake! perform the last", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Labour that thou and I shall waste,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And end that I have now begun;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For when this song is said and past,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My lute, be still, for I have done.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As to be heard where ear is none,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As lead to grave in marble stone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My song may pierce her heart as soon:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Should we then sing, or sigh, or moan?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No, no, my lute! for I have done.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The rocks do not so cruelly", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Repulse the waves continually,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As she my suit and affectión;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So that I am past remedy:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whereby my lute and I have done.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Proud of the spoil that thou hast got", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of simple hearts thorough Love's shot,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "By whom, unkind, thou hast them won;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Think not he hath his bow forgot,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Although my lute and I have done.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Vengeance shall fall on thy disdain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That makest but game of earnest pain:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Trow not alone under the sun", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unquit to cause thy lover's plain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Although my lute and I have done.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May chance thee lie wither'd and old", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The winter nights that are so cold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Plaining in vain unto the moon:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy wishes then dare not be told:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Care then who list! for I have done.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And then may chance thee to repent", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The time that thou has lost and spent", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To cause thy lover's sigh and swoon:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then shalt thou know beauty but lent,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And wish and want as I have done.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now cease, my lute! this is the last", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Labour that thou and I shall waste,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And ended is that we begun:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now is this song both sung and past—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My lute, be still, for I have done.", "") ?>
Poet("Sir Thomas Wyatt", "1503-1542") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>