 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
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 ページ
...wherein we feel there is some hidden want. * * * 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. * * * Teach me half the gladness that thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 ページ
...thy notes flow in such :i 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, and fear ; If we were things born not... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1867 - 360 ページ
...sincerest laughter Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. With some pain is fraught; Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ;...Better than all treasures That in books are found, Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow... | |
 | Penny readings - 1867 - 270 ページ
...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...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Natsume Suseki - 1988 - 188 ページ
...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 pour out his joys in song with the... | |
 | Antony Easthope - 1989 - 240 ページ
...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 born Not to shed a tear, 95 I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better... | |
 | Jane Somerville - 1990 - 156 ページ
...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 had the status of a real disease; it... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 ページ
...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;...measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know. Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow... | |
 | Carol T. Olson - 1993 - 232 ページ
...physical, was real. In Shelley's poem, "To a Skylark," dwells a deep sense of this meaning of healing. With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are...things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy ever should come near. 25 Pauline could hear life's poem in the birdsong because her life was the refrain.... | |
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