Sunday 4 December 2016

These Bloody Days have Broken my Heart - Sir Thomas Wyatt




Timeline: 15th Century, England during the reign of the Tudor's

Born Thomas Wyatt, a commoner and died a poet, a diplomat and above all, an ardent lover to Anne Boleyn.

Inspite of her betrayal to him for material vices and a run for the stature of a mistress and the queen to his Majesty (the king- Henry the 8th), the rumoured endless love of Sir Thomas Wyatt, for Anne remains a legend.
For although their relationship was anything but perfect, not to mention mired with deceit and lies, he remained devoted to her while she lived and even after she died, until his demise. 
Throughout the Tudor dynasty, love was for sale, and Anne knew that and wanted nothing less but the ultimate price. Hence some called her Lady, others named her a whore yet the whole kingdom, for the 3 years she ruled before being disowned,divorced and executed publicly for adultery, knew her as the Queen Regent of England.


The famous Thomas Wyatt's poem after he sees the beheading of his friends and of Anne Boleyn from his prison cell, on the scaffold on the Bell Tower's bottom, as it is said. 

These bloody days have broken my heart. 
My lust, my youth did them depart, 
And blind desire of estate. 
For your wit alone 
Many men would bemoan 
And since it is so, 
many still cry out aloud 
It is a great loss that you are dead and gone 
The time you had above your poor degree 
the fall whereof your friends may well bemoan 
A rotten twig upon so high a tree 
has slipped your hold and.. you are dead and gone 


These bloody days have broken my heart. 
My lust, my youth did them depart, 
And blind desire of ambitious souls 
who hastes to climb seeks to revert 
and about the throne, the thunder rolls 





'I never found out how she could lie with a smile on her face and the scratches she'd hide'