 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. * * * * * 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. Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in... | |
 | John R. Vernon - Christian life - 1867 - 338 pages
...earth's poetry, from the nightingale's, upward, will have left our songs then! " 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." But this will then and there be no longer the case, for life will no longer be... | |
 | Moxon Edward and co - 208 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...is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. XIX. Yet if we could scorn, Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? XII. 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 XIII. Yet if we could scorn pride, and hate, and fear; If we were things born not... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. We 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 ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. We 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 ; If we were things born Not to shed a tea.r, I know... | |
 | Augusta Theodosia Drane - Church and education - 1867 - 508 pages
...sentiment which all have felt, but traces it to its proper source. Shelley complains that— Our sinccrest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Paschasius explains the mystery: ' There is no song to be found,' he says, ' without... | |
 | Woodland - Animals - 1868 - 186 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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? 85 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 o/i Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1868 - 544 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. XIII. Yet if we could scorn pride, and hate, 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 
