 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. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear,...  The Blue Poetry Book - Page 115edited by - 1891 - 348 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1826 - 156 pages
...ght. Vet 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...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. PRINCE ATHANASE A FRAGMENT. THERE was a youth, who, as with toil and travel, Had grown quite weak and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Belter than all measure* Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That...lips would flow. The world should listen then, as 1 am listening now. AN EXHORTATION. CAMILEOBS 'feed on light and air; Poets' food is love and fame... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...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...That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness LEIGH HUNT. TO HIS SON, SIX YEARS OLD, DURING SICKNESS. SLEEP breathes at last from out thee, My little... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - Conduct of life - 1830 - 334 pages
...cannot be, Shadow of annoyance, Never came near thee: Thou lovest, and ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world would listen then, as I am listening now." " A very pretty compliment, and very well delivered, Mr... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...thought _ Yet if we could ecorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things bom Not to shed a tear, I sweet the victories of life, How terrorlesfi the triumph of the grave ! arc Ibund, Thy skill to poet were, thou scomer of the ground .' Teach me half the gladness That thy... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 356 pages
...blue thou wingest, dad singing itill dost soar and soaring erer ilocMt. • • • • • • ^ • Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...my lips would flow, The world should listen then, u I am listening now.* » SM th« ' Beautiei of 8h«Uey,'lsmo. 1890. SWALLOWS. Why is the siibmersion... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...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...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. si M ir.i. TAYLOR COLKRIDOE was born on the 20th of October 1772, at Ottery St. Mary, in Devonshire.... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 pages
...know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Hotter than all treasures, That in books are found, Thy skill...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE was born on the 20th of October, 1772, at Ottcry St. Mary, in Devonshire. His... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things bom Mot to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scomer of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures . Of delightful sound, Better thun all treasures, That in books are found, Thy skill...of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy hrain must know, Such harmonious madness, From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as... | |
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