But Wyatt is if nothing else even more painful in his gentle confession of his memory of that kiss: “Therewithal sweetly did me kiss / And softly said, ‘Dear, heart, how like you this?”’ (lines 13-14).

Studying so many Petrarchan love sonnets, as lyrical and elegant as they may be, their content was consistently trite and melodramatic.

The poem that is my favorite is "Love, that doth reign and live within my thought".

Comparing this to sonnet 105 by Shakespeare, the differences are vast.

I think this vulnerability the speaker displays in the lines throughout this sonnet give accessibility to their emotions.

A fan of Latin poetry, My Sweetest Lesbia is at times word for word taken from Catallus' Carmen V.

William explains how something extra is there, that detains his love; “And by addition me of thee defeated, / By adding one thing to my purpose nothing” (11-12) Shakespeare is talking about the young man’s penis.

He makes fun of the seducer’s poor attempts at wooing by saying that they should “Learn to speak first, then to woo” and notes that they have failed at what should be an easy task.

The speaker in Raleigh’s work turn’s down the shepherd by saying that all the gifts he has offered will not last and are thus meaningless.