 | Enaeas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 362 pages
...pencil will translate a laughing into a crying face, and Shelley says truly that— We look before and after And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught. But the most .lively indications of the painful- illustrated ness of laughter are given by Sir Philip... | |
 | 1866 - 858 pages
...memory : here, they almost despaired, and there, their despair changed to hope. " Wo look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught." When one obstacle has been overcome, another suddenly presents itself; we gain the height of one summit... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. * * * * * We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. »«»»» Better than all measures Of delight and sound, Better than all treasures... | |
 | John R. Vernon - 1867 - 338 pages
...earth's poetry, from the nightingale's, upward, will have left our songs then ! " We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter...is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." But this will then and there be no longer the case, for life will no longer be... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1867 - 360 pages
...Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes How in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after...And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. With some pain is fraught; Yet if we could... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 pages
...annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songa are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If... | |
 | Antony Easthope - 1989 - 240 pages
...satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, 85 Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream?...Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; 90 Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn If we were things... | |
 | Natsume Suseki - 1988 - 188 pages
...only remember two or three verses. These are a few of the lines from those verses : We look before and after And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...is fraught, Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. However happy the poet may be, he just cannot pour out his joys in song with the... | |
 | Jane Somerville - 1990 - 156 pages
...little kindness for insects, a little pity for the dead. (PP 63) His Onm Wife Voyage We look before and after And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter...is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell Of saddest thoughts. —Shelley, 'To a Skylark' Nostalgia once had the status of a real disease; it... | |
 | 1917 - 636 pages
...complement of his genius. It is the incubator of poetry. What says Shelley ?— " We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught. The sweetest gongs are those which tell of saddest thought." It is in the marshy, muddy side-wash of... | |
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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. 
