"If ever hapless woman had a cause To breathe her plaints into the open air, And never suffer inward grief to pause, Or seek her sorrow-shaken soul’s repair: Then I, for I have lost my only brother, Whose like this age can scarcely yield another."
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Mary Sidney
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (née Sidney, 27 October 1561 – 25 September 1621) was among the first Englishwomen to gain notice for her poetry and her literary patronage. Her brother was the poet and courtier Philip Sidney.
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