 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...Things more true and deep We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincercst laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest Yet if we cotfld scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...such a crystal strcaia f AVe 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 bora Not to... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - English fiction - 1857 - 332 pages
...heart by tears. CHAPTER VI. We look before and after, And pine for what is not. Our sinccrest laughter With some pain is fraught: Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. SHELLET. ""WELL, Dora," said the Colonel, as his daughter entered his room at an... | |
 | 1858 - 448 pages
...therjij as for instance : " 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." The same may be said of Tennyson. Compare him with himself in such poems as "... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1860 - 594 pages
...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... | |
 | Bookbinding, Victorian - 1861 - 182 pages
...such a crystal stream r 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 (.bought. Yet, if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear, — If we were things born Not... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...such ,1 crystal ctream ? We look before aud after, And pine for what is not ; Our sinccrest 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... | |
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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. 
