 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - English poetry - 1853 - 334 pages
...were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. I ADMIRATION. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground i Teach me half the gladness That... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 pages
...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 could come near. Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...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 Of delightful sound ; Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...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 Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 322 pages
...; 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 Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ' Teach me half the gladness That... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...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 Of delightful sound ; Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...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 Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...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 Of delightful sound§ Better than all treasures , That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, 1 know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 766 pages
...fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near xx. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground XXI. Teach me half the gladness... | |
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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 Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to... 
