![Music, the voice of harmony in creation [an anthology of verse] selected and ...](http://bks9.books.google.co.uk/books?id=LVkCAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "Music, the voice of harmony in creation [an anthology of verse] selected and ...") | Music - 1857
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look hefore 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... | |
 | Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1857
...stirrings of memory and melancholy which the early season causes in' most of us. “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. Most people Who have any sympathy with sounds can respond truiy to Jessica's assertion,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1857
...them. I shall do this often, I trust, without wearying those who read. CHAPTER II. " We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter...some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought!" SHELLEY. THE allotted month of Mrs. Lyndsey's seclusion was a period... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 1857 - 314 pages
...smile. And then she was left a and might relieve her full heart by tears. CHAPTEK VI. 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. SHELLEY. "WELL, Dora," said the Colonel, as his daughter entered... | |
 | Alice Fay - 1857 - 343 pages
...as it may seem, they ate their suppers like other sensible people. CHAPTER XXXIX. We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter, With some pain is fraught. SHELLY. Thine is a grief that wastes the heart, Like mildew on a tulip's dies — When hope deferr'd... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - History - 1859
...Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? Waking or asleep, We look before and after, With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter Yet if we could scorn Not to shed... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1860
...that fine and sensitive souls, who yet know not God, exclaim with Shelley,— “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 to Christian men is revealed the secret of that universal and wistful pining;... | |
 | England - Biography & Autobiography - 1860
...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... | |
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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 
