Lady Surrey's Lament For Her Absent Lord Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHIIJJKK LMNNOOPIQQRRSSTTUUVV WWXX| Good ladies you that have your pleasure in exile | A |
| Step in your foot come take a place and mourn with me a while | A |
| And such as by their lords do set but little price | B |
| Let them sit still it skills them not what chance come on the dice | B |
| But ye whom Love hath bound by order of desire | C |
| To love your lords whose good deserts none other would require | C |
| Come you yet once again and set your foot by mine | D |
| Whose woeful plight and sorrows great no tongue may well define | D |
| My love and lord alas in whom consists my wealth | E |
| Hath fortune sent to pass the seas in hazard of his health | E |
| That I was wont for to embrace contented mind's | F |
| Is now amid the foaming floods at pleasure of the winds | G |
| There God him well preserve and safely me him send | H |
| Without which hope my life alas were shortly at an end | H |
| Whose absence yet although my hope doth tell me plain | I |
| With short return he comes anon yet ceaseth not my pain | I |
| The fearful dreams I have oft times they grieve me so | J |
| That then I wake and stand in doubt if they be true or no | J |
| Sometime the roaring seas me seems they grow so high | K |
| That my sweet lord in danger great alas doth often lie | K |
| Another time the same doth tell me he is come | L |
| And playing where I shall him find with T his little son | M |
| So forth I go apace to see that liefsome sight | N |
| And with a kiss me thinks I say Now welcome home my knight | N |
| Welcome my sweet alas the stay of my welfare | O |
| Thy presence bringeth forth a truce betwixt me and my care | O |
| Then lively doth he look and salveth me again | P |
| And saith My dear how is it now that you have all this pain | I |
| Wherewith the heavy cares that heap'd are in my breast | Q |
| Break forth and me dischargeth clean of all my huge unrest | Q |
| But when I me awake and find it but a dream | R |
| The anguish of my former woe beginneth more extreme | R |
| And me tormenteth so that uneath may I find | S |
| Some hidden where to steal the grief of my unquiet mind | S |
| Thus every way you see with absence how I burn | T |
| And for my wound no cure there is but hope of good return | T |
| Save when I feel by sour how sweet is felt the more | U |
| It doth abate some of my pains that I abode before | U |
| And then unto myself I say When that we two shall meet | V |
| But little time shall seem this pain that joy shall be so sweet | V |
| Ye winds I you convert in chiefest of your rage | W |
| That you my lord me safely send my sorrows to assuage | W |
| And that I may not long abide in such excess | X |
| Do your good will to cure a wight that liveth in distress | X |
Henry Howard
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Lady Surrey's Lament For Her Absent Lord is a poem by Henry Howard. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.