| 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...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground * Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, • . • Such harmonious... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we coutd scorn Bate, eridge Belter than all measure* Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 518 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,...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground \ Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - Conduct of life - 1830 - 334 pages
...cannot be, Shadow of annoyance, Never came near thee: Thou lovest, and ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 624 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, How terrorlesfi the triumph of the grave ! arc Ibund, Thy skill to poet were, thou scomer of the ground .' Teach me half the gladness That thy... | |
| English literature - 1835 - 598 pages
...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...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 of Leonardo... | |
| Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...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...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 - English poetry - 1838 - 346 pages
...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...That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness,... | |
| William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...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...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 - English poetry - 1838 - 412 pages
...And pine for 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...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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