 | 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...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,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 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,...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,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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 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...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 " Medusa... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 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...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, and indefatigable... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...shapes of sky 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...Not to 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow 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... 
