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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. "
Gibson's London matriculation guide, by J. Gibson [and others]. - Page 26
1882
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The poetical reader, with notes and questions by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 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 Better...
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A manual of English literature and of the history of the English language ...

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 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...
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Thoughts for the Heart and Life

John Page Hopps - 1862 - 156 pages
...sobbing of the miserable, and the cries of the children of a broken life? until " Our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." These passionate longings of ours — why have they been given us, when our best...
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Problems in human nature, by the author of 'Morning clouds'.

Anne Judith Penny - Conduct of life - 1863 - 190 pages
...two of those whom the * ' 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." world calls dreamers : but the ambition of Alfieri* would be strange to many of...
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Favourite English Poems: Thomson to Tennyson, 1700-1860

English poetry - 1863 - 392 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. •we ever could come near. ig;, and fear; .ou scorner of the ground ! ;p; gladness...
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National Review, Volume 16

Great Britain - 1863 - 542 pages
...English lyrics closes : " 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...
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The poetical reader for school and home use, ed. by J.C. Curtis

John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 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...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

English poetry - 1863 - 438 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...
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A Manual of English Literature, and of the History of the English Language ...

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 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...
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The National Review, Volume 16

Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1863 - 540 pages
...English lyrics closes: " 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...
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