 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.  Minor Poems - Stran 170avtor: Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1878 - 396 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1858 - 460 strani
...laughter With some pain is fraught ; » Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we 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... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 strani
...sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ;...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou soorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1868 - 592 strani
...or books ! Better it is for once to see the bees improve the shining hour than to do it ourselves. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found is the music with which earth and air are ringing. That blackbird in the tall pear tree is drunk with... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 strani
...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 strani
...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 than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 strani
...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 ;...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorncr of the ground ! TRUE LOVELINESS. 57 Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 strani
...siucerest laughter With some pain ls fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ;...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... | |
 | 1861 - 182 strani
...sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest (.bought. Yet, if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear,...things born Not to shed a tear, — I know not how thy joys we ever should come near. THE SKYLARK. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 strani
...sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Onr sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ;...things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joys we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 strani
...sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn 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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