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. Poems for Memorizing - Página 125por Alice Rose Power - 1901 - 204 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Frederick Denison Maurice - 1858 - 168 páginas
...after so many ages the curse of the world, the proof of its emptiness. Still — "We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter...some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought." Do we ever see any one who appears to have found rest and satisfaction... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 páginas
...lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes...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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 páginas
...we mortals dream, Or how could thy note flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and aftci , And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest 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... | |
| Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 páginas
...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 thy notes...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 ; If we were... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 páginas
...; but never knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more trae and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes...look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our siucerest laughter With some pain ls fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1860 - 594 páginas
...yet know not God, exclaim with Shelley,— " We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Oar sincerest laughter, With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." But to Christian men is revealed the secret of that universal and wistful pining... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 páginas
...; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes...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... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 páginas
...lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes...: Our 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,... | |
| Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 páginas
...allured him to the course, his struggles are great, and bitter, and overcoming. We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. Shelley. ffliscretion. There is a seede called Discretion, if a husbandman... | |
| 1861 - 182 páginas
...lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream r We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught;... | |
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