Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542). The One I Would Love. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1907. The Book of Elizabethan Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

The One I Would Love

By Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542)


A FACE that should content me wondrous well
Should not be fair, but lovely to behold;
Of lively look, all grief for to repel
With right good grace, so would I that it should
Speak without word, such words as none can tell;	5
Her tress also should be of crispèd gold.
With wit, and these, perchance, I might be tried,
And knit again with knot that should not slide.