 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Public worship - 1858 - 168 pages
...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 pages
...: Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true...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 pages
...: Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou 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 note flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and aftci , And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...Thou lovest ; 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...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 - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...lovest ; 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 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...: Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true...: 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,... | |
 | Bookbinding, Victorian - 1861 - 182 pages
...: Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true...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;... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true...mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such ,1 crystal ctream ? We look before aud after, And pine for what is not ; Our sinccrest laughter With... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...be: Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep Thou of death must deem Things more true...Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in soch a crystal We look before and after With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that... | |
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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. 
