 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagina’s
...Chorus hymeneal. Or triumphal chant, Matched wit.h thine would be all But. an empty vaunt, — A thine wherein we feel there is some hidden want. What objects...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... | |
 | 1835 - 598 pagina’s
...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...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 - 1837 - 466 pagina’s
...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...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,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pagina’s
...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...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 - 1838 - 336 pagina’s
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look hefore and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things horn Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 - 634 pagina’s
...we mortals dream, Or 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 pagina’s
...flow in 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...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... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pagina’s
...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 ;...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 Carter Hall - 1842 - 440 pagina’s
...deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream 1 We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures, That in books are found, Thy... | |
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Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born 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 are found, Thy skill to... 
