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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. "
Hoekzema's Gleanings from English Poetry - Page 167
by David Hoekzema - 1893 - 334 pages
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The Album, Volumes 1-2

1822 - 962 pages
...with the past and the future — an animal subject to melancholy : " We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With...is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." The extremes of cultivation and of savage nature equally present man disturbed...
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Miscellaneous Poems

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1826 - 156 pages
...cannot be : Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou tovest ; but ne'er love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more...how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream i We look belbre and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovesl ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Tbou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than...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...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...or-plain? What love of thine own kind ? what ignorance of pain? * # * * We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With...is fraught: Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Not to...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...moríais dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal etream ? We look before and afler, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With...is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought _ Yet if we could ecorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things bom Not to...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 14

English literature - 1835 - 598 pages
...waves, or mountains, What shapes of skv or plain, What love of thine own kind ! what ignorance of pain ! Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem, Things...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...
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Beauties of the Country: Or, Descriptions of Rural Customs, Objects, Scenery ...

Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...or mountains 1 What shapes of sky or plain ? What love of thine own kind ? what ignorance of pain 1 Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more...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...
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The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 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...such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sineerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are...
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The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...cannot he : Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovcst ; hut ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more...thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look hefore and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...cannot be : Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou fcvest ; 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 I We look before and niter, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught...
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