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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 Liberal Movement in English Literature - Page 151
by William John Courthope - 1885 - 240 pages
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The Album, Volumes 1-2

1822 - 962 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...
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Miscellaneous Poems

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1826 - 156 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream i We look belbre and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thou ght. Vet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, .and fear ; If we were things born Not...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and Taylor coutd scorn Bate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy...
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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
...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 the saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...we moríais dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal etream ? We look before and afler, quen of saddest thought _ Yet if we could ecorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things bom Not to...
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Flowers of fiction

1837 - 418 pages
...of manhood is but the idle " crackling of thorns under the pot" in comparison. " We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter...With some pain is fraught : Our sweetest songs are (hose that tell of saddest thought." 248 FLOWERS OF FICTION. 249 And yet, despite even their glee,...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...notes flowin such a crystal stream! We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sineerest 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 ; If we were things born Not...
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Calcutta Monthly Journal and General Register ...

1839 - 790 pages
...as love, that overflows her bower. We looV before and after. And pine for what U not ; Our sinceresl laughter With some pain is fraught. Our sweetest songs are those, that tell of saddeit thought. Yet, if we could scorn, Hate and pride and fear ; If we were things born Not to...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 1

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poets, English - 1840 - 396 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or howcould thy notes flowin such a crystal stream! We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; 260 261 . Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy note flow in such a crystal stream i XVIII. 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 thouj. Yet if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear ; If we were things born...
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