The Skylark and Adonais - With Other Poems Quotes

“We look before and after,
And pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought.

Yet if we could scorn
Hate, and pride, and fear;
If we were things born
Not to shed a tear,
I know not how thy joy we ever
Should come near.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Skylark and Adonais - With Other Poems