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Text of Sonnet 75 of the Amoretti sonnet sequence by Edmund Spenser. You can also listen to Susan Sarandon reading this sonnet if you visit the link above! A critical analysis of this sonnet can be found here .
“Amoretti: Sonnet 75” by Edmund Spenser (read by Susan Sarandon)
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.”
“Not so,” (quod I) “let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your vertues 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.”
Source: The Poets’ Corner