 | 1857 - 850 Seiten
...stirrings of memory and melancholy which the early season causes in* most of us. " We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our i.irr,/f:,i tongs are those that tell of laddesl thought. Most people who have any sympathy with sounds... | |
 | 1911 - 994 Seiten
...of the morrow, no fearful peering into the future, no foreboding of final death. We look before and after. And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught — while they (to make free with another's phrases) living i* the sun, seeking the food they eat,... | |
 | Alice Fay - 1857 - 370 Seiten
...as it may seem, they ate their suppers like other sensible people. CHAPTER XXXIX. We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter, With some pain is fraught. SHELLY. Thine is a grief that wastes the heart, Like mildew on a tulip's dies — When hope deferr'd... | |
 | 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 - 448 Seiten
...stanzas in the whole poem are the one or two without therjij as for instance : " 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." The same may be said of Tennyson. Compare him with himself in such poems as "... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1858 - 168 Seiten
...after so many ages the curse of the world, the proof of its emptiness. Still — "We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter...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... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 Seiten
...: Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 Seiten
...thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy note flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and aftci , And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 Seiten
...pain ? With thy clear, keen joyance Languor cannot be ; Shadow of annoyance Never came near thec : Thou lovest ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking...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... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 Seiten
...lovest ; but never knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more trae and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes...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 saddest thought.... | |
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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. 
