Representative Poetry Online
On this day: March 12th
Random Poem of the Day
2But came the waves and washed it away:
3Again I wrote it with a second hand,
4But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
5"Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain assay,
6A mortal thing so to immortalize;
7For I myself shall like to this decay,
8And eke my name be wiped out likewise."
9"Not so," (quod I) "let baser things devise
10To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
11My verse your vertues rare shall eternize,
12And in the heavens write your glorious name:
13Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,
14Our love shall live, and later life renew."
Notes
1] A series of eighty-eight sonnets, published in 1595 and probably written between 1592 and 1594 during the poet's wooing of Elizabeth Boyle. Back to Line