Thomas Wyatt, Selected Poems
"I find no peace, and all my war is done,I fear and hope; I burn and freeze like ice;I fly above the wind yet can I not arise;And naught I have and all the world I seize on. That looseth nor locketh holdeth me in prison,And holdeth me not, yet can I scape nowise;Nor letteth me live nor die at my devise,And yet of death it giveth none occasion. Without eyen I see, and without tongue I plain;I desire to perish, and yet I ask health;I love another, and thus I hate myself;I feed me in sorrow, and laugh in all my pain. Likewise displeaseth me both death and life And my delight is causer of this strife."
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"I find no peace, and all my war is done,I fear and hope; I burn and freeze like ice;I fly above the wind yet can I not arise;And naught I have and all the world I seize on. That looseth nor locketh holdeth me in prison,And holdeth me not, yet can I scape nowise;Nor letteth me live nor die at my devise,And yet of death it giveth none occasion. Without eyen I see, and without tongue I plain;I desire to perish, and yet I ask health;I love another, and thus I hate myself;I feed me in sorrow, and laugh in all my pain. Likewise displeaseth me both death and life And my delight is causer of this strife."
"لا أجدُ سِلمًا وقد انقضتْ حروبي،
أخشى وأرجو، أحترقُ وأتجمدُ كالصقيعِ،
أحلقُ فوق الريحِ ولا أستطيعُ الارتقاءَ،
ولا أملكُ شيئًا، والدنيا بأسرها في قبضتي.
ما لا يفكُّ قيدًا ولا يشدُّه، يأسرُني،
ولا يمسكُني، ومع ذلك لا أجدُ مفرًّا،
لا يدعُني أحيا ولا أموتُ على مرادي،
ومع ذلك لا يمنحُني سببًا للموتِ.
أبصرُ بلا عينين، وأئنُّ بلا لسانٍ،
أتمنى الفناءَ، ومع ذلك أطلبُ الشفاءَ،
أحبُّ غيري، ولذلك أمقتُ ذاتي،
أقتاتُ على الأسى، وأضحكُ رغمَ كلِّ وجعي.
وبالمثل يسخطُني الموتُ والحياةُ،
ولذتي هي علةُ هذا الشقاءِ."
Thomas Wyatt, Selected Poems
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