One Day I Wrote Her Name 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, "that dost in vain assay, A mortal thing … Continue reading One Day I Wrote Her Name: A Poem by Edmund Spenser
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Today’s Poem ~ I Thought of You
I Thought Of You Sara Teasdale I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder As you and I once heard their monotone. Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me The cold and sparkling silver of the … Continue reading Today’s Poem ~ I Thought of You