Edmund Waller Quote

Why came I so untimely forth
Into a world which, wanting thee,
Could entertain us with no worth,
Or shadow of felicity?


'To My Young Lady Lucy Sidney' (1645)


Why came I so untimely forth Into a world which, wanting thee, Could entertain us with no worth, Or shadow of felicity?

Why came I so untimely forth Into a world which, wanting thee, Could entertain us with no worth, Or shadow of felicity?

Why came I so untimely forth Into a world which, wanting thee, Could entertain us with no worth, Or shadow of felicity?

Why came I so untimely forth Into a world which, wanting thee, Could entertain us with no worth, Or shadow of felicity?