The Devonshire Manuscript/My loue ys lyke vnto theternall fyre

←Lo how I seke & sew to haue || width="200" align="right" | Syns so ye please to here me playn→ The Devonshire Manuscript facsimile 53r|thumb|389px f. [53r] 1    My loue ys lyke vnto theternall the eternal  fyre2    and I as those whyche therin do remayn3    whose grevous paynes{es} ys but theyre gret desyre4    to se the syght whyche they may not attayn5    So in hells heate my self I fele to be6    that am restraynd by gret extremyte7    the syght of her whyche ys so dere to me8    O puissant loue & power of gret avayle9    by whome hell may be fellt or dethe assayleffinis __NOTOC__ Commentary Attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt,R.A. Rebholz, ed. Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems. London: Penguin, 1978. 228-29. this poem was entered by H6 and is unique to the manuscript. The speaker associates his frustrated desire to behold the object of his love with the agony of the damned in hell separated from the presence of God. Agnes K. Foxwell argues that the poem is a "madrigal" due to its rhyme scheme.Agnes K. Foxwell. The Poems of Sir Thomas Wiat. New York: Russell and Russell, 1913. Works Cited