| 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...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 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,...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...that tell of saddest thought _ Yet if we could ecorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things bom er tread, How calm and sweet the victories of life should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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 fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better... | |
| English literature - 1835 - 598 pages
...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,...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near ?" Of those compositions which are purely descriptive, the well-known stanzas to the... | |
| Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...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,...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near !' " By the middle of this month we shall lose sight entirely of that most airy, active,... | |
| William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...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,...Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground WORDSWORTH. THE POET AND HIS POETRY. [WILLIAM WORDSWORTH is descended from a respectable family ; he... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...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,...Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures, That in... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 pages
...what is not : Our sineerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate,...fear ; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, 1 know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Hotter... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...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 bom Mot to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of... | |
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