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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. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear,... "
British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge ... - Page 345
edited by - 1910 - 935 pages
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Gleanings from the Poets for Home and School

1858 - 460 pages
...Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were tilings born • Not to shed a tear, 1 know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. — Byron. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETEKNAL spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest...
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The poetical reader, with notes and questions by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...that toll of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. HOPE TRIUMPHANT IN DEATH. CAMPBELL. UNFADING HOPE ! when life's last embers burn — When soul to soul,...
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Poets of England and America; being selections from the best authors of both ...

England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SHELLEY. Mster. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among...
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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English ..., Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...flow in such ,1 crystal ctream ? We look before aud after, And pine for what is not ; Our sinccrest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. KEATS. Keats, born in 1796, died the year before Shelley, and, of course, at a still earlier age. But...
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The poetical reader, with notes and questions by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 pages
...that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. HOPE TRIUMPHANT IN DEATH. CAMPBELL. UNFADING HOPE ! when life's last embers burn — When soul to soul,...
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A manual of English literature and of the history of the English language ...

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched...That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness ^rom my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now. KEATS. Keats, born in...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1862 - 592 pages
...pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scern Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. If there be anywhere a companion poem to this, it is John Keats's " Ode to the Nightingale." Poor John...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal Or triumphal chaunt Match'd with thine, would be all But an empty vaunt — A...The world should listen then, as I am listening now ! PB Shelley THE GREEN LINNET "OENEATH these fruit-tree boughs that shed \-J Their snow-white blossoms...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...look before and after And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ;...The world should listen then, as I am listening now ! PB Shelley THE GREEN LINNET T) ENEATH these fruit-tree boughs that shed JLJ Their snow-white blossoms...
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The Fifth Reader: For the Use of Public and Private Schools

George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. " Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...world should listen then, as I am listening now." ' NoUe ' example for 'pure tone,' to be given also with full 'median stress.' contribute also to produce,...
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