 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.  Hood's Magazine - Page 4691846Full view - About this book
 | 1911 - 994 pages
...of the morrow, no fearful peering into the future, no foreboding of final death. We look before and after. And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught — while they (to make free with another's phrases) living i* the sun, seeking the food they eat,... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1858 - 168 pages
...after so many ages the curse of the world, the proof of its emptiness. Still — "We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter...sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought." Do we ever see any one who appears to have found rest and satisfaction in earthly things? Not many... | |
 | 1858 - 448 pages
...stanzas in the whole poem are the one or two without therjij as for instance : " We look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our sincerest laughter...some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." The same may be said of Tennyson. Compare him with himself in such poems... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...near thee : Thou lovest ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or...some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...near thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or...some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that toll of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...near thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy note flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and aftci , And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 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...laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs arc those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 pages
...lovest ; but never knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more trae and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes...look before and after, And pine for what is not : Our siucerest laughter With some pain ls fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1860 - 594 pages
...yet know not God, exclaim with Shelley,— " We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Oar sincerest laughter, With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." But to Christian men is revealed the secret of that universal and wistful... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 pages
...near thee : Thou lovest ; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or...some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear ; If we were things born... | |
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