 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...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, and fear ;...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... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 598 pages
...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 !...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
...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—...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 - 348 pages
...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 ;...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... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...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 ;...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...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 ;...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...such a crystal stream ? We look before and afier, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter Yet if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear; If...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...in such a crystal stream? We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter Yet if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear; If...tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Setter than all measures Of delightful sound, Setter than all treasures That in books are found, Thy... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter nz. Yet if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear; If...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; [thought. Our sweetest songs arc those that tell of isaddest Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ;...tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY. TRE fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of... | |
| |
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. 
