 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,...  The Modern Student's Book of English Literature - Page 405by Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 898 lehteFull view - About this book
 | James L. Ohlson - 1883 - 154 lehte
...scorn hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born not to shed a tear ; I know not how thy joys we ever should come near. Better than all measures...world should listen then, as I am listening now." Shelley. In a Metaphor the relations of two different things are not merely compared, as in a simile,... | |
 | 1883 - 270 lehte
...or mountains ? What shapes of sky or plain ? What love of thine own kind ? what ignorance of pain ? Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now ! PB SHELLEY. HOGG'S SKYLARK. Bird of the wilderness, Blithesome and cumberless, Sweet be thy matin... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1884 - 392 lehte
...annoyance Never came near thee ; Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow...The world should listen then as I am listening now. LINES TO AN INDIAN AIR. I arise from dreams of Thee, In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds... | |
 | Gems - 1884 - 408 lehte
...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 ! THE BRIDAL OF MALAHIDE. GEEALD GRIFFIN. THE joy-bells are ringing in gay Malahide, The fresh wind... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - 1884 - 442 lehte
...are thint,; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. PITCH AND MELODY. Taking the simple assertive sentence as the unit of thought and of melody, as " Old... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1885 - 430 lehte
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream T We look before and after And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow l"he world should listen then, as I am listening now ! PB Shelley THE GREEN LINNET T) ENEATH these... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1885 - 440 lehte
...thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things 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. JSS I ODE TO LIBERTY. Vet, Freedom, yet thy banner torn but flying, Streams like a thunder-storm against... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1887 - 730 lehte
...love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus Hymenaeal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt,...world should listen then, .as I am listening now. 1820. THE NIGHTINGALE. DAYLIGHT on its last purple cloud Was lingering grey, and soon her strain The... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 lehte
...terl of sadues* thought. Yet if we could scorn i Hate and pride and fear, If we were things born Kot to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should...The world should listen then as I am listening now. PERCY BVSSHE SHELLEY. WHEN THE HOUNDS OF SPRING the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 460 lehte
...hymeneal Or triumphal chant Matched with thine, would be all But an empty vaunt, — A thing wherem we feel there is some hidden want. What objects are...The world should listen then, as I am listening now ! ONE WORD IS TOO OFTEN PROFANED. ONE word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling... | |
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