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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. "
The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly - Page 47
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Gleanings from the Poets, for Home and School

1855 - 458 pages
...must deem Things more true and deep We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincercst laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest Yet if we cotfld scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volumes 3-4

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 772 pages
...Than we mortals dream, Ox bow could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? xvm. We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pnin is fraught ; [thought. Dur sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest XIX. Yet if we could...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true aud deep Thau we mortals dream. Or how could thy notes flow in such...some pain is fraught : Our sweetest songs are those thnt tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn, That in books ore found, Hate, and prido, and...
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The modern reader and speaker

David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...lovest ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, thou of death must deem things more trur and deep than we mortals dream; or how could thy notes...look before and after, and pine for what is not : our sin' cerest laughter with some pain is fraught; our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought....
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1856 - 456 pages
...thee: Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sod satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream. Or how could...such a crystal stream? We look before and after, And pino for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught : Our sweetest songs are those...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With Notes

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1860 - 522 pages
...Thou loveit ( but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. » Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem , Things more true and deep ' > "' "~ Than we mortals dream,...how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream f We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter •• a With some pain...
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Select specimens of English poetry

Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. THE SKYLARK. 281 Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal strcaia f AVe look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain...
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Dorothy: A Tale

Margaret Agnes Paull - 1856 - 324 pages
...then she was left alone, and might relieve her full heart by tears. CHAPTER VI. We look before and after, And pine for what is not, Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught : Our sweetest songa are those that tell of saddest thought. SHELLEY. ' TT7ELL, Dora,' said the Colonel, as his daughter...
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A woman's story, Volume 1; Volume 556

Anna Maria Hall - 1857 - 334 pages
...shall do this often, I trust, without wearying those who read. 31 CHAPTER II. " We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter...some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought 1 " SHELLEY. THE allotted month of Mrs. Lyndsey's seclusion was a period...
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Principles of Elocution

Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pages
...thee. Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy...
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