 | Woodland - 1868 - 132 Seiten
...flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest...and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, 1 know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1868
...With some pain is franght ; Onr sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thonght. Yet if we conld scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever shonld come near. Better than all measnres Of delightfnl sonnd, Better than all treasnres, That in... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1868 - 544 Seiten
...sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. XIII. Yet if we could scorn pride, and hate, and 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 than all treasures that in books are found,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868
...after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn 9.1 Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1986 - 669 Seiten
...be told that some spiritual tragedy has already happened to the race of him who cries aloud — But if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear2 — or to the poet who can compare such a tragedy with the more trivial bliss of a little feathered... | |
 | Natsume Suseki - 1988 - 184 Seiten
...of the lines from those verses : 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. However happy the poet may be, he just cannot pour out his joys in song with the... | |
 | Antony Easthope - 1989 - 227 Seiten
...after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; 90 Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn If we were things born Not to shed a tear, 95 I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better... | |
 | Jane Somerville - 1990 - 138 Seiten
...dead. (PP 63) His Onm Wife Voyage 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 thoughts. —Shelley, 'To a Skylark' Nostalgia once had the status of a real disease; it... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 Seiten
...notes flow in such a crystal stream? We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs...measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know. Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow... | |
 | Carol T. Olson - 1993 - 203 Seiten
...physical, was real. In Shelley's poem, "To a Skylark," dwells a deep sense of this meaning of healing. With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are...things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy ever should come near. 25 Pauline could hear life's poem in the birdsong because her life was the refrain.... | |
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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. 
