 | John R. Vernon - Christian life - 1867 - 338 pages
...earth's poetry, from the nightingale's, upward, will have left our songs then ! " 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." But this will then and there be no longer the case, for life will no longer be... | |
 | Moxon Edward and co - 208 pages
...Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. XVII. 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 ? XVIII. We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. XI. 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 ? XII. We look before and after, and pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter with some pain is... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songa are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tea.r, I know... | |
 | English fiction - 1878 - 684 pages
...things in life must have their taste of bitterness ?' and then, as if talking to himself, he repeated, ' "Our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught, Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." ' ' Do you sing 7 Lucy asked abruptly, struck more than ever now with the soft... | |
 | Antony Easthope - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 240 pages
...satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, 85 Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream?...Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; 90 Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn If we were things... | |
 | Natsume Suseki - Fiction - 1988 - 188 pages
...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 - Poetry - 1990 - 156 pages
...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... | |
 | 1917 - 636 pages
...complement of his genius. It is the incubator of poetry. What says Shelley ?— " We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught. The sweetest gongs are those which tell of saddest thought." It is in the marshy, muddy side-wash of... | |
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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. 
