 | Music - 1857 - 416 pages
...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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1857 - 850 pages
...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 - 334 pages
...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 - English fiction - 1857 - 332 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 - 370 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... | |
 | T. NELSON - 1858 - 508 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 wo could scorn If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...such a crystal stream ? Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep 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 Hate, and... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...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 - 594 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1860 - 532 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... | |
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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 
