 | Class-book - 1869 - 344 lehte
...Thau we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? 18. 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. 19. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride,... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 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. Tet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 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,... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 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 and... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 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,... | |
 | Author of Ellen Clinton, Mrs. - Woodward - 1869 - 552 lehte
...which made her follow him out of the room. CHAPTER LXXIV. THE MISSING LETTERS. " 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." SHELLEY. " That mother's cheek is far... | |
 | Natsume Suseki - 1988 - 188 lehte
...only remember two or three verses. These are a few of the lines from those verses : 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. However happy the poet may be, he just cannot... | |
 | Antony Easthope - 1989 - 240 lehte
...Than we mortals dream, 85 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; 90 Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn If we were things... | |
 | Jane Somerville - 1990 - 156 lehte
...little kindness for insects, a little pity for the dead. (PP 63) His Onm Wife Voyage 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 thoughts. —Shelley, 'To a Skylark' Nostalgia once... | |
 | 1917 - 636 lehte
...complement of his genius. It is the incubator of poetry. What says Shelley ?— " We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught. The sweetest gongs are those which tell of saddest thought." It is in the marshy, muddy side-wash of... | |
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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. 
