 | John R. Vernon - 1867 - 338 Seiten
...earth's poetry, from the nightingale's, upward, will have left our songs then ! " 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." But this will then and there be no longer the case, for life will no longer be... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 Seiten
...annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. 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. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1868 - 544 Seiten
...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,...is fraught: Our 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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 Seiten
...cannot be: Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. 80 Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more...how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? 85 We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 Seiten
...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,...is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Tet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 Seiten
...I recall the words of Shelley, in that exquisite piece, the " Skylark " : — " 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." I can follow more implicitly the remark of the learned Doctor, that while Milton... | |
 | Antony Easthope - 1989 - 240 Seiten
...thy clear keen joyance Languor cannot be: Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee: 80 Thou lovest - but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep,...deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, 85 Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? We look before and after, And pine for what... | |
 | Natsume Suseki - 1988 - 188 Seiten
...only remember two or three verses. These are a few of the lines from those verses : 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. However happy the poet may be, he just cannot pour out his joys in song with the... | |
 | Jane Somerville - 1990 - 156 Seiten
...little kindness for insects, a little pity for the dead. (PP 63) His Onm Wife Voyage 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 thoughts. —Shelley, 'To a Skylark' Nostalgia once had the status of a real disease; it... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...sacred few who could not tame Their spirits to the conquerors— (1. 127-128) 71 We look before and stairs That Y . of saddest thought. (1. 86-90) 72 Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious... | |
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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. 
