Friday, January 3, 2003

Amoretti Lxxv: One Day I Wrote Her Name Comments

Rating: 3.0

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.
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Edmund Spenser
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Jahooru Islam 11 April 2015

Our love shall live, and later life renew.....Famous Poet Spenser Edmund has depicted Love as Everlasting idea...it shall live & renew hereafter....a maxim like idea....a great Philosophy I dare say it should be rated as 10 & um rating it now by 10....

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Paige S 25 June 2009

True love can never come to an end, thought two people may be seperated in death. I LOVE this poem, and I hope that someone will feel this strongly about me some day! ! !

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David Zvekic 24 November 2005

I think 'washed' is to be pronounced as 2 syllables. 'wash-ed' notice the onomatopoeic effect of 'waves and wash-ed it away' simply reading it aloud sounds like waves on the shore. Beautiful. I dont know why people rated this so poorly.

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Edmund Spenser

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