ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: I
Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show,
That she, dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain,--
Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know,
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Sidney's keynote sonnet in a sonnet series (Astrophel and Stella) which, along with Shakespeare's and Spenser's sonnet series formed the lyric foundation of the literary Renaissance.
Has a very impactive over-all meaning. Sounds as tho, the pen be mighter.
Nice but no animation there