| Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–47). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Songs and Sonnets | | How each thing, save the Lover in Spring, reviveth to Pleasure |
| | | WHEN Windsor walls sustain’d my wearied arm; | |
| My hand my chin, to ease my restless head; | |
| The pleasant plot revested green with warm; | |
| The blossom’d boughs, with lusty Ver 1 y-spread; | |
| The flower’d meads, the wedded birds so late | 5 |
| Mine eyes discover; and to my mind resort | |
| The jolly woes, the hateless, short debate, | |
| The rakehell 2 life, that ’longs to love’s disport. | |
| Wherewith, alas! the heavy charge of care | |
| Heap’d in my breast breaks forth, against my will | 10 |
| In smoky sighs, that overcast the air. | |
| My vapour’d eyes such dreary tears distil, | |
| The tender spring which quicken where they fall; | |
| And I half bend to throw me down withal. | |
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