 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 ページ
...Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal strcaia f AVe look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things bora Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 ページ
...flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, and pine for what is not : our sin' cerest laughter with some pain is fraught; our sweetest songs...hate, and pride, and fear; if we were things born iiot to shed a tear; I know not how thy joys we ever should come near. Better than all measures of... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 ページ
...requiem become a sod." In such an ecstasy. —with the conclusion of the " Ode to the Skylark"•!— " Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If...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... | |
 | 1858 - 460 ページ
...wine , Tliat panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphant chant, Matched with thine, would be all But an empty vaunt, — A....could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were tilings born • Not to shed a tear, 1 know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 ページ
...or plain? What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain? With thy clear keen joyance Langour cannot be : Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee...a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures . That in books are found,... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 ページ
...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, — A...a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found,... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 ページ
...stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our siucerest laughter With some pain ls fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of...a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. ALICE RAY— MHS. SARAH J. HALE. The birds their love-notes warblo Among the blossomed trees... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 ページ
...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...a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found,... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 ページ
...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matcheil with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing...Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 ページ
...flow in such ,1 crystal ctream ? We look before aud after, And pine for what is not ; Our sinccrest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest...a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found,... | |
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Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and 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... 
