 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 ページ
...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,...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. L_ Better than all measures Of delightful sound; Better than all treasures That in... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 ページ
...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, and fear ;...tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. 20. Better than all measures of delight and sound, Better than all treasures that in books are found,... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 ページ
...what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songa are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate,...things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joys we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures... | |
 | Moxon Edward and co - 208 ページ
...laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. XIX. Yet if we could scorn, Hate, and pride, and fear ;...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. xx. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 ページ
...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 ;...things born Not to shed a tea.r, I know not how thy joys we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 ページ
...near thee. Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. 7. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are...Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! 8. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips should... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1991 - 676 ページ
...be told that some spiritual tragedy has already happened to the race of him who cries aloud — But if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear2 — or to the poet who can compare such a tragedy with the more trivial bliss of a little feathered... | |
 | Antony Easthope - 1989 - 240 ページ
...speaks from a position outside it, at a distance from it, 'near' but not there, as the poem stipulates: If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. (H.93-5) Therefore the poem works through allegory rather than symbol, as Paul de... | |
 | L. J. Swingle - 1990 - 318 ページ
...thoughts are thine" (To a Skylark, 36-37, 61-62). Those sweet thoughts must be better than any human book: "Better than all treasures / That in books are found...Thy skill to poet were, thou Scorner of the ground!" (98-100). Adapting to their yearnings the old Renaissance celebration of the Book of Nature, many minds... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 ページ
...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,...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures Teach me... | |
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Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. 
