 | 1887 - 592 pages
...of the morning," ends with a note of sadness, a wail of plaintive despair :— " We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter...is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." and "In Memoriam" as one of the three great dirges of English song, and of that... | |
 | England - 1823 - 478 pages
...animal occupied with the past and the future—an animal subject to melancholy: " We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter...is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." The extremes of cultivation and of savage nature equally present man disturbed... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal »tream ? We look before and after, 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 scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...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...is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought — Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats - English poetry - 1832 - 632 pages
...flow in such a crystal stream Î We look before and after. And pine for what is not : Our sjneerest 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 fear ; If we were things bom Not to shed... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...shapes of sky or plain ? What love of thine own kind ? What ignorance of pain ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter...is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...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...is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...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...is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could seorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? XVIII. We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs arc those that tell of saddest thought. XIX. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 pages
...Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal strei XVIII. We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of Bade thought. XIX. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not... | |
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after, And pine for what is not, Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught." " Our sweetest songs are those that tell 
