 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1861 - 314 pages
...came near thee ; Thou loveft, but never knew love's fad fatiety. Waking or afleep Thou of death muft deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in fuch a cryftal ftream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our fincereft laughter... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 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... | |
 | John Page Hopps - 1862 - 156 pages
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 392 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...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...pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With somc pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...cannot be : Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovcst ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep Thou of death must deem Things more...how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? f We look before and after And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught... | |
 | Anne Judith Penny - Conduct of life - 1863 - 190 pages
...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... | |
 | David Grant - English poetry - 1865 - 428 pages
...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...how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 744 pages
...but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. xvn. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more troe and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? xvru. We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest langhter With some pain is... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 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... | |
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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. 
