Quote#Sadness
I did not know that thou wert dead before
Quote byHenry Constable · 1562–1613
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "To Sir Philip Sidney's Soul", l. 9; prefixed to Sidney's Apology for Poetry (1595); also in Davison's Poetical Rhapsody (1602).
English (original)
I did not know that thou wert dead before; I did not feel the grief I did sustain; The greater stroke astonisheth the more; Astonishment takes from us sense of pain; I stood amazed when others' tears begun, And now begin to weep when they have done.
— Henry Constable
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