 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, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound — Better...  Songs of Three Centuries - Page 100edited by - 1875 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...than all treasures that in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of tho ground ! 21. Teach me half the gladness that thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SUELLET. PERCY BTSSHE SHELLEY, a poet of admirable genius, the son and heir of a •wealthy baronet... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1866 - 82 pages
...it, As rushing out of doors, to be resolved If Brutus so unkindly knocked, or no.—Shakespeare. 5. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...flow, The world should listen then as I am listening now.—Shelley. 6. Should fate command me to the furthest verge Of the green earth, to distant barbarous... | |
 | Penny readings - 1867 - 270 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. HOW COMMODORE TRUNNION WENT TO GET MARRIED. TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT. [Tobias Smollett formed the third... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. »«»»» Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books are...harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world would listen then, as I am listening now ! SHELLEY. WHO is't now we hear ? . None but the lark so shrill... | |
 | Moxon Edward and co - 208 pages
...than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! XXI. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. H THE VICAR. BY WM PRAED. SOME years ago, ere time and taste Had turned our parish topsy-turvy, When... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1867 - 360 pages
...near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now 1 CCXLII PB Shelley THE GREEN LINNET Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms... | |
 | Woodland - 1868 - 186 pages
...thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things 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. PB Shelley. LIME BLOSSOMS. THE flower of the tree is the flower for me, That life out of life, high-hanging... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1868 - 544 pages
...fear; If we were things born not to s^hed 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... | |
 | Robert Williams Buchanan - 1868 - 366 pages
...are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth aj-apture so divine ! - f "\ Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. Or these lines from the " Willow, Willow," of •Alfred de Musset: — Ales chers amis, quand je mourrai,... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 pages
...grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. It is said that a person accustomed to the varied song, can tell by the notes and method of singing... | |
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