Stand Whoso List
Stand whoso list upon the slipper top
Of court’s estates, and let me here rejoice;
And use me quiet without let or stop,
Unknown in court, that hath such brackish joys:
In hidden place, so let my days forth pass,
That when my years be done, withouten noise,
I may die agèd after the common trace,
For him death gripeth right hard by the crope
That is much known of other; and of himself alas,
Doth die unknown, dazed with dreadful face.
Thomas Wyatt’s other poems:
- Of the Mean and Sure Estate
- Lucks, My Fair Falcon
- The Heart and Service
- A Description of Such a One As He Would Love
- Since so Ye Please
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