 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
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 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. PB Shelley. LIX. THE PLAIN OF MARATHON. (FROM 'CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE,' CANTO n.) '^HERE'ER we... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. L_ Better than all measures Of delightful sound; Better...world should listen- then, as I am listening now. THE SENSITIVE PLANT. A SENSITIVE Plant in a garden grew, •^^ And the young winds fed it with silver... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books are...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. Shelley. THE CLOUD. I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams... | |
 | Penny readings - 1867 - 270 pages
...shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books are...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. HOW COMMODORE TRUNNION WENT TO GET MARRIED. TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT. [Tobias Smollett formed the third... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. »«»»» Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books are...harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world would listen then, as I am listening now ! SHELLEY. WHO is't now we hear ? . None but the lark so shrill... | |
 | Woodland - Animals - 1868 - 186 pages
...thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, 1 know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. PB Shelley. LIME BLOSSOMS. THE flower of the tree is the flower for me, That life out of life, high-hanging... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1868 - 544 pages
...fear; If we were things born not to s^hed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. XIV. Better than all measures of delightful sound, Better...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. CXXX. — THE FATAL BRAWL. The following dialogue is founded on an actual occurrence which took place... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things bom Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joys we ever should come near. Better than all measures...lips would flow, The world should listen then, as 1 am listening now. THE SENSITIVE PLANT* A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds ted... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books are...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. POETICAL GEMS.* SMOOTH run the waters where the brook is deep. Shakspere's Henry VI. An honest man's... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever could come near. r Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures That in books are...The world should listen then, as I am listening now. THE OLD CLOCK ON THE STAIRS. Henry Wadaworth Longfellow. " L'e'ternitfi est une pcndale, dont le balancier... | |
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