 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that toll of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate , and...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - 378 pages
...ignorance of pain ? With thy clear keen joyance Languor cannot be : Shadow of annoyance Never come near thee: Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. 42 TO A SKYLARK. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more...delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in hooks are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Xot to shed a tear, I know not how thy joys we ever should come near. Better than all measures...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1853 - 334 pages
...were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. I ADMIRATION. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground i Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 pages
...flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincercst laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...scorn, Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joys we ever should come near. Better than all measures...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That my brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 322 pages
...; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. i -i Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ' Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...ignorance of pain? With thy clear, keen joyance Languor can not be : Shadow of annoyance Never come near thee: Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 pages
...knew love's sad satiety. Waking, or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep ff han we mortals dream ; Or how could thy notes flow in...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
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Than we mortals dream, 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; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could... 
