 | 1864 - 402 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...:i crystal stream ? 18. "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. 19. Yet if we could scorn hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born not... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...some hidden want. * * * 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. * * * Teach me half the gladness that thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 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... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 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... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...what ignorance of pain ? 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... | |
 | Augusta Theodosia Drane - Church and education - 1867 - 508 pages
...all have felt, but traces it to its proper source. Shelley complains that — Our sinccrest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Paschasius explains the mystery : ' There is no song to be found,' he says, ' without... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...a crystal stream ? XII. 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 XIII. Yet if we could scorn pride, and hate, and fear; If we were things born not... | |
 | John R. Vernon - Christian life - 1867 - 338 pages
...left our songs then ! " 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." But this will then and there be no longer the case, for life will no longer be... | |
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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. 
