 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
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books are...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. POETICAL GEMS.* SMOOTH run the waters where the brook is deep. Shakspere's Henry VI. An honest man's... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1870 - 236 pages
...shapes of sky or plain ? / , What love of thine own kind ? what ignorance of pain ? f ) THE SKYLARK. 63 With thy clear, keen joyance Languor cannot be ; Shadow...Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! 64 THE FAIRY QUEEN'S CHARIOT. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delightful...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. THE FUGITIVES. HPHE waters are flashing, •*- The white hail is dashing, The lightnings are glancing,... | |
 | William Cox Bennett - 1870 - 202 pages
...and pride and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delightful...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. TO A BEE.— (Robert Soutliey.) Thou wert out betimes, thou busy, busy bee ! As abroad I took my early... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...; If we were things born not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. XIV. Better than all measures of delightful sound, Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. CXXX. — THE FATAL BRAWL. The following dialogue is founded on an actual occurrence which took place... | |
 | Francis Young (F.R.G.S.) - 1870 - 262 pages
...shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books are...The world should listen then, as I am listening now EXERCISE.— OS. COMPOSITION. 1. What is meant by trochaic measure J What la the length of each of... | |
 | English poetry - 1871 - 476 pages
...of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. THE SKYLARK. 13 Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. To the Cuckoo. HAIL, beauteous stranger of the grove ! Thou messenger of Spring... | |
 | William Osborn (schoolmaster) - 1871 - 114 pages
...could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not r Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ;...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SHELLEY. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1871 - 410 pages
...rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. " Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...world should listen then, as I am listening now." 'Noble' example for 'pure tone,' to be given also with full ' median stress.' " We wish that this column,... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - English poetry - 1871 - 484 pages
...fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come neai. Better than all measures Of delightful sound ; Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. To the Cuckoo. HAIL, beauteous stranger of the grove ! Thou messenger of Spring... | |
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