 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. THE SKYLARK. 281 Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more...dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal strcaia f AVe look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...With thy clear keen joyance Languor cannot be: Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true aud deep Thau we mortals dream. Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? We look before... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 1856 - 324 pages
...then she was left alone, and might relieve her full heart by tears. CHAPTER VI. We look before and after, And pine for what is not, Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught : Our sweetest songa are those that tell of saddest thought. SHELLEY. ' TT7ELL, Dora,' said the Colonel, as his daughter... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pages
...With thy clear keen joyance Languor cannot be ; Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee. Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep,...how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1857 - 334 pages
...shall do this often, I trust, without wearying those who read. 31 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 1 " SHELLEY. THE allotted month of Mrs. Lyndsey's seclusion was a period... | |
 | 1858 - 448 pages
...stanzas in the whole poem are the one or two without therjij as for instance : " 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 same may be said of Tennyson. Compare him with himself in such poems as "... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1858 - 168 pages
...after so many ages the curse of the world, the proof of its emptiness. Still — "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." Do we ever see any one who appears to have found rest and satisfaction... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...thy clear keen joyance Langour cannot be : Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep,...pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that toll of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Better... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...thy clear keen joyai.ce Languor cannot be : Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety Waking or asleep,...true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy note flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and aftci , And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...Thou lovest ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Tilings more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could...laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs arc those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were... | |
| |
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. 
