 MY lute, awake ! perform the last Labour that thou and I shall waste, And end that I have now begun; For when this song is sung and past, My lute, be still, for I have done.  The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt - Page 29by Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1831 - 244 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nineteenth century - 1898 - 1146 pages
.... . . No Du Bellay bethought himself of turning into French a poem of the same period beginning — My lute, awake, perform the last Labour that thou and I shall waste, the work of the ambassador Wyatt. Great indeed were the opportunities for the two nations, and very... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1900 - 340 pages
...Of him that loveth thee ? Helas! thy cruelty! And wilt thou leave me thus ? Say, 'Nay!'; say, 'Nay!' MY Lute, awake! Perform the last Labour that thou and I shall waste; And end that I have now begun! For when this Song is sung and past, My Lute, be still! for I have done. As to be heard, where ear... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1901 - 348 pages
...Of him that loveth thee ? Helas! thy cruelty! And wilt thou leave me thus ? Say, 'Nay!'; say, 'Nay!' MY Lute, awake! Perform the last Labour that thou and I shall waste ; And end that I have now begun! For when this Song is sung and past, My Lute, be still ! for I have done. As to be heard, where ear... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...I unkindly so am served, ' How file you this ? ' — what hath she now deserved .' 38. To His Lute lute, awake! perform the last Labour that thou and I shall waste, And end that I have now begun ; For when this song is said and past, My lute, be still, for I have done. As to be heard where ear... | |
 | Bernhard Aegidius Konrad ten Brink - English literature - 1902 - 344 pages
...which also makes such happy use of motives from Horace,* purifying and increasing their effect — " My lute awake ! perform the last Labour that thou and I shall waste, And end that I have now begun ; For when this song is sung and past, My lute ! be still, for I have done. " As to be heard where... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1903 - 430 pages
...process, was actually addressed to any person, this could not be Anne Bolevn : — SIR THOMAS WYATT 351 My lute, awake ! perform the last Labour that thou and I shall waste, And end that I have now begun ; For when this song is sung and past, My lute, be still, for I have done. As to be heard where ear... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 432 pages
...process, was actually addressed to any person, this could not be Anne Boleyn : — SIR THOMAS WYATT 351 My lute, awake ! perform the last Labour that thou and I shall waste, And end that I have now begun ; For when this song is sung and past, My lute, be still, for I have done. As to be heard where ear... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1903 - 432 pages
...beautified in the process, was actually addressed to any person, this could not be Anne Boleyn : — My lute, awake ! perform the last Labour that thou and I shall waste, And end that 1 have now begun ; For when this song is sung and past, My lute, be still, for I have done. As to be... | |
 | John Erskine - English poetry - 1903 - 854 pages
...song-quality. The illustration is quoted from one of his best known songs: — " My lute awake performs the last Labour that thou and I shall waste ; And end that I have now begonne ; And when this song is song and past, My lute be still, for I have done." 1 The poetic Renascence,... | |
 | Walter Wilson Greg - English drama - 1906 - 484 pages
...Just as they were themselves foreshadowed in the recurrent melody of Wyatt's farewell to his lute — My lute, awake! perform the last Labour that thou and I shall waste, And end that I have now begun ; For when this song is sung and past, My lute, be still, for I have done — so they in their turn... | |
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