Hidden fields
Books Books
" 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. "
A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language ... - Page 502
by George Lillie Craik - 1861
Full view - About this book

The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; [thought. Our sweetest songs arc those that tell of isaddest Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ;...tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY. TRE fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of...
Full view - About this book

Imagination and fancy; or Selections from the English poets, with critical ...

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. XIX. Yet if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear; If...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,...
Full view - About this book

The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...sinccrest laughter With some pain is fraught; [thought. Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ;...tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY. TRE fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of...
Full view - About this book

Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest...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...
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: complete in one volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...crystal stream 1 Wo look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincercst laughter With eorno pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that...scorn Hate, and pride, and fear. If we were things bom Not to ahed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of...
Full view - About this book

The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volumes 1-4

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...such a crystal stream ? XVIII. (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. XIX. Yet if we could scorn Hnte, and pride, and fear ; If we were tilings born...
Full view - About this book

The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 14

1835 - 606 pages
...notes now in such a crystal stream ! We look before and after And pine for what is not, Our sincerest laughter, With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest...a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come nearl" Of those compositions which are purely descriptive, the well-known stanzas to the " Medusa of...
Full view - About this book

Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...notes flow in such p. crystal stream7 We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs...thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all treasures • That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! Teach me...
Full view - About this book

Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...notes flow in such a crystal stream 1 We look before and after, And pine for what is not) Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest...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...
Full view - About this book

Kidd's Own Journal, Volume 3

Arts - 1853 - 394 pages
...flow in such « crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincereit laughter With some pain is fraught : Our sweetest...scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things bora Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we erer could come near. Better than all measures Of...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF