One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand Summary
Edmund Spenser

One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand Overview

"One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand" is a sonnet by Edmund Spenser. It is also known under the name "Amoretti LXXV," which means, in Italian, "little loves." It is thus part of his sonnet cycle Amoretti. The cycle was first published in 1595 in London by William Ponsonby. It was published under the full title, Amoretti and Epithalamion. Written not long since by Edmunde Spenser. The volume included 89 sonnets and two other short poems. The poems, including this one, serve as a record of Spenser's courtship of and marriage to Elizabeth Boyle.