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 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 292 sidor
...Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy note flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and afte7, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught : Our sweetest songs are thosf which tell of iaddtst thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear ; If we were things... | |
 | 1846 - 590 sidor
...can only present the following stanzas to the reader:-r" Waking or asleep, Thou of death must dream Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream ;...some pain is fraught. Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought." To speak more immediately of the little volume before us; it is greatly... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - 1847 - 396 sidor
...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...some pain is fraught : Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 sidor
...we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? XVIII. (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. XIX. Yet if we could scorn Hnte, and pride, and fear ; If we were tilings born... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 392 sidor
...worth Beamed with matchless ray." CHAPTEE III. LETTEB8 AOT> MEMORIALS OF YOUTH. 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. SHELLEY. THE materials for biography in the year 1831, are scanty, by reason of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 sidor
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream I We look before and eongs are those that tell of saddoft thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 sidor
...satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or bow could thy notes flow in such a crystal - stream? We...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 sidor
...cannot be : Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1853 - 334 sidor
...cannot be : Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more...laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest Bongs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 sidor
...I still shall wait Some new hereafter, and a future state. Prior. 24 AFTER. AGE. 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. Shelley. Oh! it is ecstacy in early days, When youth is ours — before the scorching... | |
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