Quote#Sadness
I did but see him and he disappeared
Quote byKatherine Philips · 1632–1664
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 'On the Death of my First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips' (1655), as reported in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, ed. Elizabeth Knowles (Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 575.
English (original)
I did but see him and he disappeared, I did but pluck the rose-bud and it fell, A sorrow unforeseen and scarcely feared, For ill can mortals their afflictions spell.
— Katherine Philips
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