 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.  Minor Poems - Page 170by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1878 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 474 pages
...tell of saddest XIX. . Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Nof to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. xx. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found,... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 478 pages
...sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things burn Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 770 pages
...crystal stream ? XVIII. We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter XIX. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things bom Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near xx. Better than all measures... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 772 pages
...laughter With some pnin is fraught ; [thought. Dur sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest XIX. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things bom Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come neat xx. Better than all measures... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 pages
...requiem become a sod." In such an ecstasy. —with the conclusion of the " Ode to the Skylark"•!— " Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If...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... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...cerest laughter with some pain is fraught; our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet, if we could scorn hate, and pride, and fear; if we were things born iiot to shed a tear; I know not how thy joys we ever should come near. Better than all measures of... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things bora Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures... | |
 | 1858 - 460 pages
...laughter With some pain is fraught ; » Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were tilings born • Not to shed a tear, 1 know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ;...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou soorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1868 - 592 pages
...or books ! Better it is for once to see the bees improve the shining hour than to do it ourselves. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found is the music with which earth and air are ringing. That blackbird in the tall pear tree is drunk with... | |
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