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Read & copy the quotation
“How great my grief, my joys how few, Since first it was my fate to know thee!”
- Date
- 1901
Meaning of “How great my grief, my joys how few,…”
The speaker measures a relationship by the imbalance between grief and joy, making recollection itself the structure through which attachment and loss are assessed.
Where does it come from?
“How Great My Grief,” Poems of the Past and the Present (1901), Project Gutenberg #3168. It is a dramatic lyric statement and is not automatically read as direct autobiography.
