This sequence of numbered sonnets records the course of a single love affair, from devotion through reproach to heartbreak, the speaker asking how his beloved can claim to have fulfilled the duty of true love. An introduction by William Stanley Braithwaite places the book in the company of Sir Philip Sidney and the Elizabethan sonneteers.
An early twentieth-century American revival of the Renaissance love sonnet, for readers of formal verse. Download the free EPUB.