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One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand Amoretti LXXV Edmund Spenser

 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 "thou 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," 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."

Note: The Amoretti are a series of eighty nine sonnets Spenser wrote to
 commemorate his courtship of his second wife, Elizabeth Boyle. A companion
 piece, 'Epithalamion', honours their wedding.

It's hard to believe I've never come across Spenser's Amoretti before, but
the fact remains that they are simply not very well represented in
anthologies, recommendations, etc. . I have to wonder if their closeness in
theme, form, feel and publication date to Shakespeare's more famous sonnets
has to some extent led to their being overshadowed and relatively ignored -
Palgrave declines to include one, for instance - but for whatever reason, I
have managed to live in blissful ignorance of them.

Anyway, I've made up for that now, having spent a happy evening reading
through the sonnets - not really the recommended way to read them, of
course, but I was pleasantly surprised by their variety, all the more
impressive considering the short period in which they were written, and by
the reasonably consistent quality of the poems.

I chose to run today's sonnet because I was drawn by its resemblance to one
of my favourites from Shakespeare, "Nor Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments"
[Poem #1575], but this is in reality a very different sort of poem, more
playful and less self-absorbed than Shakespeare's despite its superficial
thematic similarity. (It is also not as good a poem, but then, few could
compare to Shakespeare on what was practically his home ground.) The theme,
as I have remarked before, is one beloved of poets through the ages, but the
anecdotal tone of Spenser's poem lends it a certain extra charm and intimacy.

martin

[Links]

Biography of Spenser:
 http://www.bartleby.com/65/sp/Spenser.html

On the Amoretti:
 http://www.bartleby.com/213/1207.html

An essay on Spenser:

http://www.themediadrome.com/content/articles/words_articles/poems_spenser.htm

The complete Amoretti:
 http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/spenser1.html

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