472. Sonnet 75 by Edmund Spenser
E Spenser read by Classic Poetry Aloud: http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to th...
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E Spenser read by Classic Poetry Aloud:
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Giving voice to the poetry of the past.
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Sonnet 75
by Edmund Spenser (1552 – 1599)
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 eek my name be wiped out likewise.
Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name;
Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.
First aired: 11 March 2008
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