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" 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. "
Select specimens of English poetry - Page 281
by Edward Hughes - 1856
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Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...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, I know not how thy joy we ever...all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasure!! That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Tesch me half...
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Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ...

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or bow could thy notes flow in such a crystal - stream? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...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...
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Sketches of English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Present Century

Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...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, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. " Better than all measures...
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Poets of England and America: Being Selections from the Best Authors of Both ...

Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter...scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures...
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A cyclopędia of poetical quotations, arranged by H.G. Adams

Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...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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The Poetry of the Sentiments

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - English poetry - 1853 - 334 pages
...after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest Bongs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we...scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. I ADMIRATION. Better than...
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The book of English poetry, with critical and biogr. sketches of the poets

English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream) We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter...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...
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Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School

American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in .such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...fear ; If we were things bora Not to shed a tear, 1 know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures if Of delightful sound, Better...
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The Boy's Second Help to Reading: A Selection of Choice Passages from ...

Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream. Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...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...
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Gift of Sentiment: A Souvenir for 1854

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 322 pages
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. i -i Better than all measures...
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