 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.  Dorothy: A Tale - Page 57by Margaret Agnes Paull - 1856 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1822 - 962 pages
...animal occupied with the past and the future — an animal subject to melancholy : " 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 extremes of cultivation and of savage nature equally... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1826 - 156 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream i We look belbre 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 thou ght. Vet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, .and fear ; If... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 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 With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we coutd scorn Bate, and pride, and fear; If we... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...shapes of sky or-plain? What love of thine own kind ? what ignorance of pain? * # * * 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 the saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...we moríais dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal etream ? We look before and afler, quen songs are those that tell of saddest thought _ Yet if we could ecorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 598 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, 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... | |
 | 1837 - 418 pages
...of manhood is but the idle " crackling of thorns under the pot" in comparison. " We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught : Our sweetest songs are (hose that tell of saddest thought." 248 FLOWERS OF FICTION. 249 And yet, despite even their... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 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 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 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 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look hefore 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. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If... | |
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