 | 1822 - 962 pagini
...and the future — an animal subject to melancholy : " 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." The extremes of cultivation and of savage nature equally present man disturbed... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1826 - 156 pagini
...how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream i We look belbre 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 thou ght. Vet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, .and fear ; If we were things born Not... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pagini
...how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after. And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught...are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we coutd scorn Bate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pagini
...of thine own kind ? what ignorance of pain? * # * * 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 the saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pagini
...how could thy notes flow in such a crystal etream ? We look before and afler, And pine for what is charter of all woe, Which nature soon, with recreating hand, Will blot in mercy from the book of saddest thought _ Yet if we could ecorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things bom Not to... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagini
...how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught;...and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better... | |
 | 1835 - 598 pagini
...Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ! We look before and after And pine for what is not, Our sincerest laughter, With some pain is fraught...tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near ?" Of those compositions which are purely descriptive, the well-known stanzas to the " Medusa of Leonardo... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 pagini
...how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ! We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:...tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near !' " By the middle of this month we shall lose sight entirely of that most airy, active, and indefatigable... | |
 | 1837 - 418 pagini
...crackling of thorns under the pot" in comparison. " We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught : Our sweetest songs are (hose that tell of saddest thought." 248 FLOWERS OF FICTION. 249 And yet, despite even their glee,... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pagini
...What love of thine own kind ? What ignorance of pain ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books... | |
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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. 
