One Day I Wrote Her Name - Edmund Spenser poem reading | Jordan Harling Reads

Описание: Poetry reading of Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name by Edmund Spenser. Classic poem readings uploaded at midday (UK) every day.

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Full poem text, public domain (also available in subtitles):

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 so to immortalize;
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke my name be wiped out likewise.""
""Not so,"" (quod I) ""let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your vertues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name:
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.""

Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name - written by Edmund Spenser
Narrated by Jordan Harling

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Background music:

https://musopen.org/music/224/isaac-a...

Asturias (Leyenda), from Suite española Op. 47 (guitar arr.) - composed by Isaac Albéniz performed by Gordon Rowland available from https://musopen.org/ (Public Domain Mark 1.0)

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Author image:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

See page for author [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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