 | American poetry - 1875 - 210 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, 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 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, 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 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; 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry, English - 1877 - 326 pages
...sinccrest 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; 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... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - Poetry - 1878 - 358 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; 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... | |
 | Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest [thought. TI. X 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.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1878 - 442 pages
...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. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 pages
...laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. 11. Yet if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear ; If...tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. 12. Better than all measures Of delightful sound ; Better than all treasures That in books are found,... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 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; 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... | |
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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. 
