Whoso List to Hunt
Thomas Wyatt * Track #1 On AS and A-Level English Literature Anthology: Love Poetry Throughout The Ages
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- #1Whoso List to Hunt
Thomas Wyatt
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- #18One Flesh
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- #19Meeting Point
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Keith Douglas
- #25Timer
Tony Harrison
- #26The Love Poem
Carol Ann Duffy
- #27Long Finish
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- #28
After the LunchWendy Cope
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Thomas Wyatt is believed to be one of the lovers of Anne Boleyn, who was accused by Henry VIII, or at least those around him, of adultery. The truth of this will never be known, but this poem is thought to be about his hopeless pursuit of her. For a while he was in terrible danger, imprisoned in the...
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Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,
But as for me, helas, I may no more.
The vain travail hath worried me so sore,
I am of them that furthest come behind.
Yet may I by no means, my worried mind
Draw from the deer; but as she fleeth afore
Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore,
Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.
Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt,
As well as I, may spend his time in vain;
And graven in diamonds in letters plain
There is written, her fair neck round about,
"Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,
And wild to hold, though I seem tame."