W. B. YeatsHow many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
About This Quote
This quote, from William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116, to the memory of his son Hamnet,” was written as a love poem to Hamnet, who died at age eleven. The first two lines express the poet’s deep sorrow for the loss of his son; the second and third lines express his hope that the boy was loved and mourned by friends and family.
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