 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...tame Their spirits to the conquerors— (1. 127-128) 71 We look before and after, And pine for what is ness up . of saddest thought. (1. 86-90) 72 Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 Seiten
...Or how could thy 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 are those that tell of saddest thought. 90 Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not... | |
 | Suzanne R. Kirschner - 1996 - 260 Seiten
...emotions take their meaning only in relation to their opposites. As Shelley wrote in "To a Skylark": Yet if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear If we were things bom Not to shed a tear I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.73 71 In Poetry and Prose, p.... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 Seiten
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught;...shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should corne near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are... | |
 | Helen Jacobus Apte - 1998 - 252 Seiten
...Poems, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poetry) Very beautiful. "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." September 8, 1902 The Light of Asia, by Sir Edwin Arnold (Poetry) Very interesting.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 Seiten
...unbodied joy whose race is just begun. 10710 To a Skylark' 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. 10711 'To a Skylark' Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know. Such... | |
 | Archie Weller - 1999 - 400 Seiten
...before him was something akin to idolatry. He whispered: 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. Surrey Anne, who knew about devotion as much as she knew about cooking, wondered... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 2000 - 524 Seiten
...man. "We look before and after . . . our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." But if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear, If we were things born Not to shed a tear There the pantheistic poet is telling a tale not told by all the parrots in the Zoological Gardens;... | |
 | Charles K. Wolfe, James E. Akenson - 186 Seiten
...creativity is born of pain. Or, in the words of Shelley: We look before and after; We pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. "To a Skylark," 86-90 Social Organization of Country Music Ray's career, like any... | |
 | Phil Oliver - 2001 - 296 Seiten
...small interior features of the private imagination. 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. Here the poet envies the lark's capacity to sink luxuriantly into the moment. This... | |
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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. 
