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 shed a tear,... The Modern Student's Book of English Literature - Sida 405efter Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 898 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1826 - 156 sidor
...laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thou ght. Vet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, .and fear ; If...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. PRINCE ATHANASE A FRAGMENT. THERE was a youth, who, as with toil and travel, Had grown quite weak and... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 sidor
...thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. ttUSIC, WHEN SOFT VOICES DIE. Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory,-— Odors, when... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 sidor
...Thou lovest ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Tilings more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. si M ir.i. TAYLOR COLKRIDOE was born on the 20th of October 1772, at Ottery St. Mary, in Devonshire.... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 sidor
...laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. XDC. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ;...lips would flow, The world should listen then, as l am listening now. ODE TO LIBERTY. Yet freedom, yet, thy banner torn but flying, Btreoma like a thunder-storm... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 sidor
...Joyous and clear and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. Keats, born in 1796, died the year before Shelley, and, of course, at a still earlier age. But his... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1846 - 332 sidor
...a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus Hymeneal, Or triumphal chaunt, Match'd with thine would be all What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SA-.HI!T, TAYLOR CoLEHiDGB was born on the 20th of October, 1772, at Ottery St. Mary, in Devonshire.... | |
| 1846 - 436 sidor
...how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? I«W TBE PRISONER OF CHILLON. We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. — Byron. SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 sidor
...scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joys we ever should come near. Better than all measures...world should listen then, as I am listening now." SHELLEY. 59.— GIFFORD'S ACCOUNT OF HIS EARLY DAYS. [THE history of men who have overleaped " poverty's... | |
| Robert Turnbull - 1847 - 396 sidor
...sincerest laughter, With some pain is fraught : Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. Inferior to this, but still very beautiful, more natural, and more especially Scottish, are the following... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 sidor
...what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With sonic, pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. " Yet if we could scorn Hate,...The world should listen then as I am listening now. The " Adonais," written in memory of Keats, one year before Shelley's own death, is not only remarkable... | |
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