 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Enaeas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 362 σελίδες
...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 - 208 σελίδες
...: 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 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1867 - 360 σελίδες
...near thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Languor cannot be : Shadow of annoyance Waking or asleep Thou of death must deem Things more...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes How in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter... | |
 | Natsume Suseki - 1988 - 188 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 - 636 σελίδες
...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. 
