| 1822 - 962 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 ; Our sweetest...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 - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...? 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 pages
...flow in such a crystal etream ? We look before and afler, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest 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 - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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; Our sweetest songs...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... | |
| English literature - 1835 - 598 pages
...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 ; Our sweetest...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 - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...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: Our sweetest songs...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... | |
| William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...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...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... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 pages
...flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sineerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest...fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, 1 know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Hotter... | |
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