 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...Thou lovest ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. 17. Waking or asleep, thou of death must deem TTn'nga more true and deep than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such :i crystal stream ? 18. "We look before and after, and pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter... | |
 | 1866 - 858 pages
...memory : here, they almost despaired, and there, their despair changed to hope. " Wo look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught." When one obstacle has been overcome, another suddenly presents itself; we gain the height of one summit... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 362 pages
...pencil will translate a laughing into a crying face, and Shelley says truly that— We look before and after And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught. But the most .lively indications of the painful- illustrated ness of laughter are given by Sir Philip... | |
 | Moxon Edward and co - 202 pages
...: Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. XVII. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more...how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? XVIII. We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...cannot be: Shadow of annoyance never came near thee: Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. XI. Waking or asleep, thou of death must deem Things more...how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? XII. We look before and after, and pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter with some pain is... | |
 | John R. Vernon - 1867 - 328 pages
...earth's poetry, from the nightingale's, upward, will have left our songs then ! " 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." But this will then and there be no longer the case, for life will no longer be... | |
 | Natsume Suseki - 1988 - 188 pages
...only remember two or three verses. These are a few of the lines from those verses : 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. However happy the poet may be, he just cannot pour out his joys in song with the... | |
 | Antony Easthope - 1989 - 240 pages
...cannot be: Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee: 80 Thou lovest - but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, 85 Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? We look before and after, And pine for what... | |
 | Jane Somerville - 1990 - 156 pages
...little kindness for insects, a little pity for the dead. (PP 63) His Onm Wife Voyage 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 thoughts. —Shelley, 'To a Skylark' Nostalgia once had the status of a real disease; it... | |
 | 1917 - 642 pages
...complement of his genius. It is the incubator of poetry. What says Shelley ?— " We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught. The sweetest gongs are those which tell of saddest thought." It is in the marshy, muddy side-wash of... | |
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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. 
