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. Readings from Literature - 142 ページ 編集 - 1915 - 320 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 ページ
...after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Onr sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought Yet if we could...things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joys we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures... | |
| 1861 - 182 ページ
...could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream r 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 (.bought. Yet, if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear, — If we were things born Not... | |
| Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 ページ
...struggles are great, and bitter, and overcoming. 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. Shelley. ffliscretion. There is a seede called Discretion, if a husbandman... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 ページ
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in soch a crystal We look before and after With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of thought. And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter Yet if we araM scorn Hate, and pride,... | |
| Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1861 - 314 ページ
...pain is fraught ; Our fweeteft fongs are thofe which tell of faddeft thought. Yet if we could fcorn Hate, and pride, and fear, — If we were things born Not to fhed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all meafures Of delightful... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1862 - 476 ページ
...some pain is fraught ; [thought. Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest VOL. in. 3 XIX. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ;...shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should comi xx. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1862 - 592 ページ
...could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream1 We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ;...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... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1862 - 470 ページ
...Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest VOL. in. 3 XIX. Yet if we could scorn Hate, arid pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not ho\^ thy joy we ever should come near. xx. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than... | |
| John Page Hopps - 1862 - 156 ページ
...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... | |
| 1863 - 542 ページ
...this most marvellous of English lyrics closes : " We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ;...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near." How strong is the contrast with Wordsworth's " Skylark" I Shelley's is far the more... | |
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