 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. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear,...  The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 - Page 685edited by - 1902 - 1084 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1858 - 460 pages
...Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were tilings born • Not to shed a tear, 1 know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. — Byron. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETEKNAL spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...or plain? What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain? With thy clear keen joyance Langour cannot be : Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou soorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...that toll of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. HOPE TRIUMPHANT IN DEATH. CAMPBELL. UNFADING HOPE ! when life's last embers burn — When soul to soul,... | |
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt, — A...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SHELLEY. Mster. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs arc those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorncr of the ground ! TRUE LOVELINESS. 57 Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...flow in such ,1 crystal ctream ? We look before aud after, And pine for what is not ; Our sinccrest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. KEATS. Keats, born in 1796, died the year before Shelley, and, of course, at a still earlier age. But... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 pages
...that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. HOPE TRIUMPHANT IN DEATH. CAMPBELL. UNFADING HOPE ! when life's last embers burn — When soul to soul,... | |
 | Bookbinding, Victorian - 1861 - 182 pages
...things born Not to shed a tear, — I know not how thy joys we ever should come near. THE SKYLARK. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would now. The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SHELLEY. SUMMER. ELIGHTFUL is this loneliness... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joys we ever should come near. Better than all measures...were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladnessThat thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing...That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness ^rom my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now. KEATS. Keats, born in... | |
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