| Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–47). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Songs and Sonnets | | A Complaint by Night of the Lover not beloved |
| | | ALAS! so all things now do hold their peace! | |
| Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing; | |
| The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease, | |
| The nightès car the stars about doth bring. | |
| Calm is the sea; the waves work less and less: | 5 |
| So am not I, whom love, alas! doth wring, | |
| Bringing before my face the great increase | |
| Of my desires, whereat I weep and sing, | |
| In joy and woe, as in a doubtful ease. | |
| For my sweet thoughts sometime do pleasure bring; | 10 |
| But by and by, the cause of my disease | |
| Gives me a pang, that inwardly doth sting, | |
| When that I think what grief it is again, | |
| To live and lack the thing should rid my pain. | | | | |
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