 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.  Favorite Poems - Stran 57avtor: Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1877 - 93 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1822 - 962 strani
...animal occupied with the past and the future — an animal subject to melancholy : " 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 extremes of cultivation and of savage nature equally present man disturbed... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1826 - 156 strani
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream i We look belbre and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thou ght. Vet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, .and fear ; If we were things born Not... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 strani
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and Taylor coutd scorn Bate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 strani
...shapes of sky or-plain? What love of thine own kind ? what ignorance of pain? * # * * We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter...is fraught: Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 strani
...we moríais dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal etream ? We look before and afler, quen of saddest thought _ Yet if we could ecorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things bom Not to... | |
 | 1837 - 418 strani
...of manhood is but the idle " crackling of thorns under the pot" in comparison. " We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter...With some pain is fraught : Our sweetest songs are (hose that tell of saddest thought." 248 FLOWERS OF FICTION. 249 And yet, despite even their glee,... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 strani
...shapes of sky or plain ? What love of thine own kind ? What ignorance of pain ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 strani
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look hefore and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things horn Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 - 634 strani
...we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream I We look before and niter, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things bom Mot to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 strani
...flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sineerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest...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, Hotter... | |
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