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" 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. "
The Handbook of Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief ... - Page 611
by Joseph Angus - 1880 - 688 pages
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Miscellaneous Poems

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1826 - 156 pages
...laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thou ght. Vet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, .and fear ; If...Not to shed 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...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught: Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and...Not to shed 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...
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The three histories

Maria Jane Jewsbury - Conduct of life - 1830 - 334 pages
...came near thee: Thou lovest, and ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are...scorner of the ground. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world would listen then,...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 14

English literature - 1835 - 598 pages
...Our sincerest laughter, With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought ! Yet if we could scorn, Hate, and pride,...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near ?" Of those compositions which are purely descriptive, the well-known stanzas to the...
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Beauties of the Country: Or, Descriptions of Rural Customs, Objects, Scenery ...

Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...Our sincerest 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...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near !' " By the middle of this month we shall lose sight entirely of that most airy, active,...
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The Moral and Intellectual School Book: Containing Instructions for Reading ...

William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...Our sincerest 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...Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground WORDSWORTH. THE POET AND HIS POETRY. [WILLIAM WORDSWORTH is descended from a respectable family ; he...
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The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...Our sincerest 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...Not to shed 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...
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The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 pages
...know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Hotter than all treasures, That in books are found, Thy skill...scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness, From my lips would flow, The world should listen then,...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. XDC. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ;...Not to shed 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...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Our einccrest laughter With some pain is fraught : Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest ies fervently the skies, Turns oftener to the stars...From llaidee's glance than any graven letter. Tie scomer of the grouiMÍ ! Teach me half the gladness That thy braiu must know, Such harmonious madness...
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