As Cypres tree that rent is by the root

DMI number:

8994

First Line:

As Cypres tree that rent is by the root

Last Line:

So wanting my wish I die for my desire

Poem Genre / Form:

Ten-line stanzas

Themes:

Death and Love

Content/Publication

Title:

Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who flourish’d in the reign of Henry the Eighth... With the poems of Sir Thomas Wiat, and others his Famous Contemporaries. [T68161]

Page No(s):

p.161

Poem Title:

The Lover for want of his desire, Sheweth his death att hande.

Attribution:

Vncertaine Auctors.

Attributed To:

Not attributed