 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...but an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want. * * * 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 thought. * * * Teach me half the gladness that thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such :i crystal stream ? 18. "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 thought. 19. Yet if we could scorn hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born not... | |
 | Penny readings - 1867 - 270 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... | |
 | John R. Vernon - 1867 - 338 pages
...earth's poetry, from the nightingale's, upward, will have left our songs then ! " 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 thought." But this will then and there be no longer the case, for life will no longer be... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. * * * * * 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 thought. »«»»» Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures... | |
 | Moxon Edward and co - 208 pages
...we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? XVIII. 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 thought. XIX. Yet if we could scorn, Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born... | |
 | Natsume Suseki - 1988 - 188 pages
...only remember two or three verses. These are a few of the lines from those verses : 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 thought. However happy the poet may be, he just cannot pour out his joys in song with the... | |
 | Jane Somerville - 1990 - 156 pages
...little kindness for insects, a little pity for the dead. (PP 63) His Onm Wife Voyage 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 thoughts. —Shelley, 'To a Skylark' Nostalgia once had the status of a real disease; it... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 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... | |
 | Carol T. Olson - 1993 - 232 pages
...physical, was real. In Shelley's poem, "To a Skylark," dwells a deep sense of this meaning of healing. With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are...Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy ever should come near. 25 Pauline could hear life's poem... | |
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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. 
