WE LOOK
"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 the saddest thought."
From To a Skylark, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Daily Dose
WE LOOK
"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 the saddest thought."
From To a Skylark, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Daily Dose
From The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language, selected and arranged with notes by Francis Turner Palgrave
HIS VERY
"His very foot has music in 't
As he comes up the stair --"
From The Sailor's Wife, by W. J. Mickle
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