English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 36. A Supplication |
| | | Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503(?)–1542) |
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| FORGET not yet the tried intent | |
| Of such a truth as I have meant; | |
| My great travail so gladly spent, | |
| Forget not yet! | |
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| Forget not yet when first began | 5 |
| The weary life ye know, since whan | |
| The suit, the service none tell can; | |
| Forget not yet! | |
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| Forget not yet the great assays, | |
| The cruel wrong, the scornful ways, | 10 |
| The painful patience in delays, | |
| Forget not yet! | |
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| Forget not! O, forget not this, | |
| How long ago hath been, and is | |
| The mind that never meant amiss— | 15 |
| Forget not yet! | |
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| Forget not then thine own approved | |
| The which so long hath thee so loved, | |
| Whose steadfast faith yet never moved— | |
| Forget not this! | 20 |
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