From the Amoretti

                                   From the Amoretti

This is a poem of the 89 sonnets of Faerie Queen. This is 75th sonnet about love and desire. Spencer wrote as a part of courtship of his second wife Elizabeth Boyle. 

In the very first few lines the poet talks about the efforts that he took to moralize the name of his beloved.

One fine day he started writing his beloved’s name upon the strand but waves became his enemies as it washed the name of his beloved.

Still after the first frailer he did not gave up and again tried to write her beloved’s name but once again tide come and washed it away. The pain has very well express in the line by the poem,

         “But the tide came and made my pains his prey”. 

In the next few lines the poet talks about the efforts that moralize his beloved’s name. His beloved may watching him from somewhere and expresses her sorrow on all her lover’s failure.

The poet expresses the feeling because he was scared that as a way that nature wiped out the name of beloved his fear is that his name can be wiped out likewise.

In the last lines of the poem the poet expressed his fear and he still will continued his efforts to eternize the name of his beloved. And consoles her by saying that the she many “ die in dust” but she will live by fame. She would be in the memory by her virtue she will live in verse even after death. Death will subdue the entire world. That poet expressed all his feeling of love for his beloved.

Thus in this poem the poet do many efforts to mortalize his beloved name and remember her long time.