They Flee From Me That Sometime Did Me Seek |
|
|
|
They flee from me that sometime did me seek,
With naked foot stalking in my chamber.
I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek
That are now wild and do not remember
That sometime they put themselves in danger
To take bread at my hand; and now they range
Busily seeking with a continual change.
Thanked be fortune, it hath been otherwise
Twenty times better; but once in special,
In thin array after a pleasant guise,
When her loose gown did from her shoulders did fall,
And she me caught in her arms long and small,
Therewithall sweetly did me kiss,
And softly said, "Dear heart, how like you this?"
It was no dream, I lay broad waking.
But all is turned thorough my gentleness,
Into a strange fashion of forsaking;
And I have leave to go of her goodness,
And she also to use newfangleness.
But since that I so kindly am served,
I would fain know what she hath deserved.
|
|
Comments of this poem (5)
noven dolsi at 2008-06-08 |
| i think this poem is very deep and rich and also has a very unique style in telling this poem, but i have to be honest actually i found some difficulties in analysis this poem, so i hope fo all the readers to help me at least we can share each other, thank you so much... |
Dustin at 2008-09-16 |
| In the first stanza I initially thought of mice, but looking again I believe it could be a reference to children, and growing up "I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek, That now are wild and do not remember, That sometime they put themself in danger, To take bread at my hand; and now they range, Busily seeking with a continual change." |
Samantha at 2008-09-25 |
ii dnt gt it ?
help ? |
Tabby at 2008-10-08 |
| The speaker is a bit of a player, and he is surprised one time when a woman uses him for sex and tells him 'its ok to go and sleep with other women if you want'. The comparison to animals is a metaphor, animals are trainable- 'i have seen them gentle, tame, and meek' but also wild creatures. He is learning that women can be strong willed too. |
stuan at 2008-10-27 |
| the petrarchon belief of love, focusing on physical aspects |
Please, comment this poem
More `Sir Thomas Wyatt` Poems
|
My mother's maids, when they did sew and spin,
They sang sometime a song of the field mouse,
|
Rating: 0.00
Votes: 0 |
|
|
|
I find no peace, and all my war is done.
I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice.
|
Rating: 3.67
Votes: 3 |
|
|
|
Since so ye please to hear me plain,
And that ye do rejoice my smart,
|
Rating: 0.00
Votes: 0 |
|
|
Related Poets
 Louise Labe
(1)
(1522 - 1566)
Was a female French poet of the Renaissance.
|
 Remy Belleau
(1)
(1528 - 1577)
Remy (or Rémi) Belleau was a poet of the French Renaissance. He is most known for his paradoxical poems of praise for simple things and his poems about precious stones.
|
 Jacques Tahureau
(2)
(1527 - 1555)
One of the more famous members of the group of humanist writers based in Poitiers(France).
|
 St John of the Cross
(1)
(1542 - 1591)
Both his poetry and his studies on the growth of the soul are considered the summit of mystical Spanish literature and one of the peaks of all Spanish literature.
|
Classic Poems
|
My enemy came nigh,
And I
|
Rating: 4.00
Votes: 2 |
|
|
|
WHEN the lamp is shatter'd,
The light in the dust lies dead;
|
Rating: 0.00
Votes: 0 |
|
|
|
Against the rubber tongues of cows and the hoeing hands of men
Thistles spike the summer air
|
Rating: 4.33
Votes: 6 |
|
|
|
My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life, nay more,
My joy, my magazine, of earthly store,
|
Rating: 2.00
Votes: 1 |
|
|
|
I, with whose colours Myra dress'd her head,
I, that ware posies of her own hand-making,
|
Rating: 5.00
Votes: 1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
