 | Anna Maria Hall - 1857 - 334 lehte
...shall do this often, I trust, without wearying those who read. 31 CHAPTER II. " We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought 1 " SHELLEY. THE allotted month of Mrs.... | |
 | 1857 - 850 lehte
...stirrings of memory and melancholy which the early season causes in* most of us. " We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our i.irr,/f:,i tongs are those that tell of laddesl thought. Most people who have any sympathy with... | |
 | 1911 - 994 lehte
...of the morrow, no fearful peering into the future, no foreboding of final death. We look before and after. And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught — while they (to make free with another's phrases) living i* the sun, seeking the food they eat,... | |
 | 1858 - 448 lehte
...stanzas in the whole poem are the one or two without therjij as for instance : " 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 same may be said of Tennyson. Compare... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1858 - 168 lehte
...after so many ages the curse of the world, the proof of its emptiness. Still — "We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought." Do we ever see any one who appears to... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 lehte
...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 toll of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride,... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 lehte
...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,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 lehte
...we mortals dream, Or how could thy note flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and aftci , And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught: Our tweetft son^t are those which tell of saddest thought. Vet if we could scorn Hate and pride and... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 lehte
...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 arc those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride,... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 lehte
...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,... | |
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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. 
