Everything you need to understand or teach Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show.
"Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show" is a sonnet by early modern English poet and courtier Philip Sidney. It is the first poem in the sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella, which details the evolving relationship between a man and woman through the perspective of the lover, Astrophil. The poem introduces the sonnet sequence by dramatizing the speaker's struggle to find the appropriate words to express his love for Stella.