 And when this song is sung and past, My lute, be still, for I have done. As to be heard where ear is none, As lead to grave in marble stone, My Song may pierce her heart as soon. Should we then sigh, or sing, or moan? No, no, my lute, for I have done.  The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Watt: With Memoir and Critical Dissertation - Page 22by Sir Thomas Wyatt - 1868 - 211 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...is placed among the works of Sir Thomas Wyatt, is, in the Nugce Antiques, ascribed to Lord Rochford. MY lute awake, perform the last Labour that thou and...song is sung and past, My lute be still, for I have 'lone. — The rocks do not so cruelly Repulse the waves continually, As she my suit and affection... | |
 | Lyre - Love poetry, English - 1806 - 208 pages
...perished on a scaffold; but under all the accumulated ignominy of guilt and detestation. TO HIS LUTE. MY Lute, awake! perform the last Labour that thou...sung and past, My Lute be still; for I have done. The rocks do not so cruelly Repulse the waves continually, As she my suit and affection ; So that I... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...that I think what grief it isi again, To live and lack the thing should rid my pain. LORD ROCHFORD. MY lute, awake, perform the last Labour that thou...this song is sung and past, My lute be still, for I him; done. The rocks do not so cruelly Repulse the waves continually, As she my suit and affection:... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 740 pages
...soueraigne I haue redresse, And I content me with my hire. THE LOUER COMPLAINETH THE KINDNES OF HIS LOVE. MY lute awake perform the last Labour, that thou a'nd I shall wast: And end that I haue now begönne, And when this son» is sung and past, My lute be still fur... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 472 pages
...With the two t former, which accompted are The Lamer complaineth the Unkindness of his Lace. ]VI v lute awake, perform the last Labour that thou and...is sung and past, My lute be still, for I have done ! The rocks do not so cruelly Repulse the waves continually, As she my suit and affection : So that... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 482 pages
...former, which accompted are f Surrey and Wyatt. The Lover complaineth the VnTcindness of his Lave. J\JY lute awake, perform the last • Labour that thou...is sung and past, My lute be still, for I have done ! ****** The rocks do not so cruelly Repulse the waves continually, As she my suit and affection :... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 470 pages
...With the two f former, which accompted are The Lover complaineth the Unkindness of his Love. JVI Y lute awake, perform the last Labour that thou and...this song is sung and past, My lute be still, for 1 have done ! The rocks do not so cruelly Repulse the waves continually, As she my suit and affection... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1815 - 510 pages
...Dr. Nott is now in the press. 1815. Mr. Park also here ascribes to Lord Rochford the beautiful lines. "My lute, awake, perform the last Labour, that thou and I shall waste," &c. which TottuI gives to Wyat. Who lakes not pleasure then, • Safely on shore to rest, And see with... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 432 pages
...illness, in his thirty-ninth year. ODE. THE LOVER COMPLAINKTH THE UXKIXDNESS OF HIS LOVE. MY lute, adieu ! 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, As to be heard where ear... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1820 - 514 pages
...lute, adieu ! perform the last Labour that them 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." [Vol. ii. p. 109.] The name of Lord Surrey awakens other and more interesting associations. His romantic... | |
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