 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 pages
...a 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... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 646 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... | |
 | Natsume Suseki - Fiction - 1988 - 188 pages
...lines from those verses : 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. However happy the poet may be, he just cannot pour out his joys in song with the... | |
 | Jane Somerville - Poetry - 1990 - 156 pages
...(PP 63) His Onm Wife Voyage 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 thoughts. —Shelley, 'To a Skylark' Nostalgia once had the status of a real disease; it... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...conquerors— (1. 127-128) 71 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. (1. 86-90) 72 Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious... | |
 | Carol T. Olson - Social Science - 1993 - 232 pages
...physical, was real. In Shelley's poem, "To a Skylark," dwells a deep sense of this meaning of healing. 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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 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... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1994 - 752 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. 90 Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not... | |
 | Helen Jacobus Apte - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 252 pages
...(Poetry) Very beautiful. "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." September 8, 1902 The Light of Asia, by Sir Edwin Arnold (Poetry) Very interesting.... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 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... | |
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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. 
