Edmund Spencer- Amoretti
He wrote this book of poems 'Amoretti' for his new bride. Amoretti literally translates into 'little loves'.
look at the way he immortalizes his love for her in poetry. By writing his love in poems , it shall be renewed over and over again as the verses are read century to century by scholars and lovers.
SONNET. LXXV.
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 selue shall lyke to this decay,
and eek my name bee wyped out lykewize.
Not so, (quod I) let baser things devize,
to dy in dust, but you shall live by fame:
my verse your vertues rare shall eternize,
and in the heavens wryte your glorious name.
Where whenas death shall all the world subdew,
our love shall live, and later life renew.
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