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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. "
A Hand-book of English and American Literature: Historical and Critical ... - Page 298
by Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 518 pages
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A book of English poetry; ed. by T. Shorter

Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Onr sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought Yet if we could...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 Of delightful...
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The Poetry of Nature

1861 - 182 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream r We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest (.bought. Yet, if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear, — If we were things born Not...
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Sunbeams for all seasons; counsels, cautions, and precepts &c

Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...allured him to the course, his struggles are great, and bitter, and overcoming. 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. Shelley. ffliscretion. There is a seede called Discretion, if a husbandman...
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A manual of English literature and of the history of the English language ...

George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 pages
...deep 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...Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1862 - 592 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream1 We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter...those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scern Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy...
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The National Review, Volume 16

Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1863 - 540 pages
...him into utter dejection before this most marvellous of English lyrics closes: " We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter...scorn Hate and pride and fear, If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near." How strong is the contrast with...
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National Review, Volume 16

1863 - 542 pages
...him into utter dejection before this most marvellous of English lyrics closes : " We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter...scorn Hate and pride and fear, If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near." How strong is the contrast with...
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The poetical reader for school and home use, ed. by J.C. Curtis

John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...deep 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...Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delight...
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A Manual of English Literature, and of the History of the English Language ...

George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 pages
...deep 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...Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

1863 - 438 pages
...deep 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...Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful...
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