 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...sacred few who could not tame Their spirits to the conquerors— (1. 127-128) 71 We look before and stairs That Y . of saddest thought. (1. 86-90) 72 Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious... | |
 | Matt Cartmill - 1996 - 352 pages
...filled with a profound, unconscious joy that self-conscious creatures like ourselves can never feel: Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more...how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? . . . Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...cannot be: Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee: Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. 80 Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more...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... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pages
...cannot be: Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee: Thou lovest — but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more...how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are... | |
 | Helen Jacobus Apte - 1998 - 252 pages
...1902 Shelley's Shorter Poems, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poetry) Very beautiful. "We look before and after And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter...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.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...To a Skylark' Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. 10710 To a Skylark' We look before and of saddest thought. 10711 'To a Skylark' Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know. Such... | |
 | Archie Weller - 1999 - 400 pages
...the blue-cowled figure before him was something akin to idolatry. He whispered: We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter...is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Surrey Anne, who knew about devotion as much as she knew about cooking, wondered... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 2000 - 556 pages
...by Edward Engelberg in his The Vast Design (Toronto: University of Toronto Press. l°-74). chap. 2of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream. ' Yeats located the source of the ideal in just those mortals whom the skylark surpassed. The former... | |
 | Jody Norton - 2000 - 268 pages
...celebrating the unfinalizability of being. Teach us, Sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine; Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more...mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a chrystal stream?60 7 Love and the Law of the Name-of-the-Father in Spicer, Freud, and Lacan the development... | |
 | Charles K. Wolfe, James E. Akenson - 186 pages
...general truth that creativity is born of pain. Or, in the words of Shelley: We look before and after; We pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With...is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. "To a Skylark," 86-90 Social Organization of Country Music Ray's career, like any... | |
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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. 
