Lady Mary Wroth was a Renaissance poet and the first English female writer to maintain a reputation after her death. Her works include The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. The latter is the second-known sonnet sequence by an English woman.
‘Love, a child, is ever crying’ is part of ‘Pamphilia to Amphilanthus’ and doesn’t have an innocent view about love and serves as a warning of its nature.
Love a childe is ever crying,
Please him, and he strait is flying;
Give him, he the more is craving,
Never satisfi’d with having.
‘Sonnet 11’ is part of Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, a sonnet sequence in Countess of Montgomery’s Urania. It describes the feelings and expressions of a girl after her love has been unfaithful to her.
You endless torments that my rest oppress,
How long will you delight in my sad pain?
Will never Love your favour more express?
Shall I still live, and ever feel disdain?
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