 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 Metropolitan - Sida 641835Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1878 - 446 sidor
...Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Wakiijg or asleep Thou of death must deem Things more true...is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest [thought. TI. X Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 sidor
...shapes of sky or plain ? What love of thine own kind ? What ignorance of pain ? 10. 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. 11. Yet if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear ; If we were things born Not... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 sidor
...I recall the words of Shelley, in that exquisite piece, the " Skylark " : — " 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." I can follow more implicitly the remark of the learned Doctor, that while Milton... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - 1901 - 938 sidor
...grace in the affections of the parent who was lovingly severe. It was Shelley who said, "Our sinoe-est laughter with some pain is fraught, Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." dear mother Нее. " Who forer^tH the love of Mother? It is t ho love that unvcr... | |
 | Natsume Suseki - 1988 - 188 sidor
...only remember two or three verses. These are a few of the lines from those verses : 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. However happy the poet may be, he just cannot pour out his joys in song with the... | |
 | Jane Somerville - 1990 - 156 sidor
...little kindness for insects, a little pity for the dead. (PP 63) His Onm Wife Voyage 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 thoughts. —Shelley, 'To a Skylark' Nostalgia once had the status of a real disease; it... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sidor
...sacred few who could not tame Their spirits to the conquerors— (1. 127-128) 71 We look before and stairs That Y . of saddest thought. (1. 86-90) 72 Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 sidor
...cannot be: Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee: Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. 80 Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more...is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. 90 Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 sidor
...To a Skylark' Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. 10710 To a Skylark' We look before and of saddest thought. 10711 'To a Skylark' Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know. Such... | |
 | Helen Jacobus Apte - 1998 - 252 sidor
...1902 Shelley's Shorter Poems, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poetry) Very beautiful. "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." September 8, 1902 The Light of Asia, by Sir Edwin Arnold (Poetry) Very interesting.... | |
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