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 a tear,... The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 - Page 647edited by - 1901 - 1084 pagesFull view - About this book
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1826 - 156 pages
...laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thou ght. Vet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, .and fear ; If...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. PRINCE ATHANASE A FRAGMENT. THERE was a youth, who, as with toil and travel, Had grown quite weak and... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Belter than all measure* Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That...lips would flow. The world should listen then, as 1 am listening now. AN EXHORTATION. CAMILEOBS 'feed on light and air; Poets' food is love and fame... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught: Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride,...That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness LEIGH HUNT. TO HIS SON, SIX YEARS OLD, DURING SICKNESS. SLEEP breathes at last from out thee, My little... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 pages
...cannot be, Shadow of annoyance, Never came near thee: Thou lovest, and ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world would listen then, as I am listening now." " A very pretty compliment, and very well delivered, Mr... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. ttUSIC, WHEN SOFT VOICES DIE. Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory,-— Odors, when... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pages
...Thou lovest ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Tilings more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. si M ir.i. TAYLOR COLKRIDOE was born on the 20th of October 1772, at Ottery St. Mary, in Devonshire.... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 pages
...know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Hotter than all treasures, That in books are found, Thy skill...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE was born on the 20th of October, 1772, at Ottcry St. Mary, in Devonshire. His... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 - 634 pages
...tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things bom Mot to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scomer of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. XDC. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ;...lips would flow, The world should listen then, as l am listening now. ODE TO LIBERTY. Yet freedom, yet, thy banner torn but flying, Btreoma like a thunder-storm... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 pages
...or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. Keats, born in 1796, died the year before Shelley, and, of course, at a still earlier age. But his... | |
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