 |
 |
NATIONAL POETRY MONTH, APRIL 2001 POETRY DAILY'S "POET'S PICK" --------------------------------------------------------------- "I am as I am and so will I be" by Sir Thomas Wyatt (Attributed) I am as I am and so will I be But how that I am none knoweth truly. Be it evil, be it well, be I bound, be I free, I am as I am and so will I be. I lead my life indifferently, I mean no thing but honestly. And though folks judge full diversely I am as I am and so will I die. I do not rejoice or yet complain. Both mirth and sadness I do refrain And use the mean since folks will feign. Yet I am as I am, be it pleasure or pain. Diverse do judge as they do trow, Some of pleasure and some of woe. Yet for all that nothing they know. But I am as I am wheresoever I go. But since that judgers do thus decay Let every man his judgement say. I will take it in sport and play For I am as I am whosoever say nay. Who judgeth well, well God him send. Who judgeth evil, God him amend. To judge the best therefore intend For I am as I am and so will I end. Yet some there be that take delight To judge folks' thought for envy and spite But whether they judge me wrong or right I am as I am and so do I write. Praying you all that this do read To trust it as you do your creed And not to think I change my weed For I am as I am however I speed. But how that is I leave to you. Judge as ye list, false or true. Ye no more know than afore ye knew Yet I am as I am whatever ensue. And from this mind I will not flee, But to you all that misjudge me I do protest, as ye may see I am as I am and so will I be. ---------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2001 by the Daily Poetry Association. All rights reserved. Poetry Daily http://www.poems.com/ janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit perky, parky PD: 54/41/37 CD: 54/44/43 TEL: 613 256 8340 EMAIL: [log in to unmask] "a new voice" home page: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ . "new voice news" latest posts: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nvnNET/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn