 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 Metropolitan - Стр. 641835Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - Страниц: 356
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in soch a crystal We look before and after With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of thought. And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter Yet if we araM scorn Hate, and pride,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1862 - Страниц: 592
...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... | |
 | John Page Hopps - 1862 - Страниц: 156
...is filled with the sobbing of the miserable, and the cries of the children of a broken life? until " Our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." These passionate longings of ours — why have they been given us, when our best... | |
 | 1863 - Страниц: 392
...cannot be; Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more...is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. •we ever could come near. ig;, and fear; .ou scorner of the ground ! ;p; gladness... | |
 | Anne Judith Penny - 1863 - Страниц: 190
...says Bacon ; who thinks to be so now ? Perhaps one or two of those whom the * ' 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." world calls dreamers : but the ambition of Alfieri* would be strange to many of... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - Страниц: 744
...a crystal stream? xvru. We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest langhter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought zix. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - Страниц: 412
...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 - Страниц: 618
...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - Страниц: 544
...than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? XII. 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 XIII. Yet if we could scorn pride, and hate, and fear; If we were things born not... | |
 | John R. Vernon - 1867 - Страниц: 338
...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... | |
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