Poetry & Verse
Sonnet 75
By Edmund SpenserSource: Edmund Spenser - PoetryDB (Public Domain)103 words
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Agayne 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: Agayne I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray. "Vayne man," sayd she, "that doest in vaine assay. A mortall thing so to immortalize, For I my selve shall lyke to this decay, and eek my name bee wyped out lykewize."…
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