 They flee from me, that sometime did me seek With naked foot, stalking in my chamber. I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek, That now are wild, and do not remember That sometime they put themselves in danger To take bread at my hand; and now they range...  The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt - Page 31by Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1831 - 244 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Jacobs - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 504 pages
...newfangleness. 20 But, since that I unkindly so am served: How like you this, what hath she now deserved? (B) They flee from me, that sometime did me seek With naked foot stalking in my chamber. I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek That now are wild, and do not remember That... | |
 | Gregory Orr - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 250 pages
...we begun; Now is this song both sung and past: My lute be still, for I have done. They Flee from Me They flee from me that sometime did me seek With naked foot stalking in my chamber. I have seen them gentle tame and meek That now are wild and do not remember That sometime... | |
 | Susan Stewart - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 460 pages
...see, for example, in the titles of Sir Thomas Wyatt's poems in Tottel's Miscellany of 1557, such as "The lover sheweth how he is forsaken of such as he sometime enjoyed" or "Of his love called Anna."38 We recorded earlier Hopkins's tentative and fearful touching of his... | |
 | John Carrington - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...accompanied by a sense of present rejection, and an enigmatic mix of part-rebuke and part-acceptance. They flee from me, that sometime did me seek With naked foot, stalking in my chamber. I have seen them gentle, tame and meek, That now are wild, and do not remember That... | |
 | Jonathan Cross - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 348 pages
...list to hount 443 The Lover Compareth his State to a Shippe in Perilous Storme Tossed on the Sea 443 The Lover Sheweth How He is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed 444 Ys yt possible 445 What shulde I save 446 The Lover Complayneth the Unkindness of His Love 447... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 778 pages
...that that most I fear: What meaneth this? SIR THOMAS WYATT ENGLISH (C. 1503-1542) The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed...that sometime did me seek With naked foot stalking in my chamber: I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek That now are wild and do not remember That sometime... | |
 | Thomas Betteridge - Literary Collections - 2004 - 266 pages
...meaning. Wyatt's poem opens by the narrator placing its events within a specific architectural space. They flee from me that sometime did me seek With naked foot stalking in my chamber. I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek / That now are wild and do not remember That... | |
 | José Luis Otal, José Luis Otal Campo, Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando, Begoña Bellés Fortuño - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 296 pages
...to them as both "gentle, tame, and meek" and "wild" at the same time. They Flee from Me (fragment) They flee from me, that sometime did me seek, With naked foot stalking in my chamber. I have seen them, gentle, tame, and meek, That now are wild, and do not remember That... | |
 | Cambridge International Examinations - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2005 - 272 pages
...remove your finery wherefore | for which They Flee From Me, That Sometime Did Me Seek SIR THOMAS WYATT They flee from me, that sometime did me seek. With naked foot stalking in my chamber. I have seen them, gentle, tame, and meek, That now are wild, and do not remember That... | |
 | Anthony Powell - Art - 2005 - 364 pages
...contemporary with Villon, though Wales had Lewis Glyn Cothi. Wyatt's fame as a poet rests, of course, on: They flee from me that sometime did me seek With naked foot stalking in my chamber. I have seen them gentle, tame and meek That now are wild and do not remember . . . Miss... | |
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