Explore "35 Sonnets" by Fernando Pessoa on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
We never joy enjoy to that full point / Regret doth wish joy had enjoyèd been, / Nor have the strength regret to disappoint / Recalling not past joy's thought, but its mien.
Yet joy was joy when it enjoyèd was / And after-enjoyed when as joy recalled, / It must have been joy ere its joy did pass / And, recalled, joy still, since its being-past galled.