 His "Essai de quelques poèmes chrétiens" comprise 12 sonnets and three long lyric poems (two on the last supper and one on death).Sponde's writing paints the massiveness of the world, man's tortured destiny, and his lack of clarity.The author is obsessed with inconstancy, masks, appearances, and death, and this presence of death in the midst of man's life inspires man to seek eternity and to reach out to God.