 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 1857 - 332 Seiten
...full heart by tears. CHAPTER VI. We look before and after, And pine for what is not. Our sinccrest laughter With some pain is fraught: Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. SHELLET. ""WELL, Dora," said the Colonel, as his daughter entered his room at an... | |
 | 1858 - 460 Seiten
...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...could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were tilings born • Not to shed a tear, 1 know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all... | |
 | 1858 - 448 Seiten
...are the one or two without therjij as for instance : " 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." The same may be said of Tennyson. Compare him with himself in such poems as "... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1858 - 168 Seiten
...of the world, the proof of its emptiness. Still — "We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 Seiten
...laughter With some pain is fraught: Our tweetft son^t are those which tell of saddest thought. Vet if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear ; If we were things born Not to ahed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Setter than all measure* Of delightful... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 Seiten
...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 toll of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Better... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 Seiten
...stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our siucerest laughter With some pain ls fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of...tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. ALICE RAY— MHS. SARAH J. HALE. The birds their love-notes warblo Among the blossomed trees ; The... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1860 - 594 Seiten
...yet know not God, exclaim with Shelley,— " We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Oar sincerest laughter, With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." But to Christian men is revealed the secret of that universal and wistful pining... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 Seiten
...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 arc those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 Seiten
...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...Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy... | |
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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. 
