| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Songs and Sonnets | | The Lover describeth his being stricken with sight of his Love |
| | | THE LIVELY sparks that issue from those eyes, | |
| Against the which there vaileth no defence, | |
| Have pierc’d my heart, and done it none offence, | |
| With quaking pleasure more than once or twice. | |
| Was never man could any thing devise, | 5 |
| Sunbeams to turn with so great vehemence | |
| To daze man’s sight, as by their bright presence | |
| Dazed am I; much like unto the guise | |
| Of one stricken with dint of lightning, | |
| Blind with the stroke, and crying here and there; | 10 |
| So call I for help, I not when nor where, | |
| The pain of my fall patiently bearing: | |
| For straight after the blaze, as is no wonder, | |
| Of deadly noise hear I the fearful thunder. | | | | |
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