sir philip sidney made verse versions of the first 43 psalms. after he died in 1586, his sister, mary sidney herbert, the countess of pembroke, completed the translation of the final two-thirds of the psalter. together they used a dazzling array of stanza forms and rhyme schemes—as many as 145 different forms for the 150 psalms. the sidney psalter was not published in its complete form until the twentieth century, but it was widely read in manuscript, and influenced such later poets as john donne and george herbert.