The Lover that fled Love now follows it with his Harm. Songs and Epigrams. Sir Thomas Wyatt. 1880. The Poetical Works

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880.

Songs and Epigrams

The Lover that fled Love now follows it with his Harm


SOMETIME I fled the fire, that me so brent,
By sea, by land, by water, and by wind;
And now the coals I follow that be quent,
From Dover to Calais, with willing mind.
Lo, how desire is both forth sprung, and spent;	5
And he may see, that whilom was so blind,
And all his labour laughs he now to scorn,
Meshed in the briers, that erst was only torn.