Poetry & Verse
Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote Her Name
By Edmund SpenserSource: Edmund Spenser - PoetryDB (Public Domain)102 words
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,...
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One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. "Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain assay, A mortal thing so to immortalize; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wiped out likewise."…
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