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 Dublin Review - Side 413redigeret af - 1860Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 sider
...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 thai, tell of saddest thought. Yet if wo could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 388 sider
...CHAPTER XVI. THE SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE. » f " 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." " For I have learned by experience that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake."... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 322 sider
...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 tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to... | |
| Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 sider
...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 tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn, Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to... | |
| 1854 - 268 sider
...Keeps faithful, with a singleness of aim. 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. SHELLEY. AOE. Rightly it is said That man descends into the vale of years ; Yet... | |
| 1854 - 456 sider
...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 tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things bora Not to... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 sider
...flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincercst 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 Not to... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 sider
...could thy notes now 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 which tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 sider
...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 tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 478 sider
...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 tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things burn Not to... | |
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