“On this hapless earth
There ’s small sincerity of mirth,
And laughter oft is but an art
To drown the outcry of the heart.”
"Address to certain Gold-fishes"
Poems (1851)
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British poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher 1796–1849Related quotes
Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)
Context: Ten thousand times a million sons of sons move
Through one great and towering town
Wearing their wits, which means their laughter,
As their crown. Set free upon the earth
By simple gifts of knowing how mere mirth can cut the bonds
And pull the blood spikes out;
Their conversation shouts of "Fool!"
"God's Garden" lines 13–16, Poems, by Dorothy Frances Gurney (London: Country Life, 1913).
“Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.”
“The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness
That empty the heart.”
In The Seven Woods http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1518/
In The Seven Woods (1904)
Context: I have heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods
Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees
Hum in the lime-tree flowers; and put away
The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness
That empty the heart. I have forgot awhile
Tara uprooted, and new commonness
Upon the throne and crying about the streets
And hanging its paper flowers from post to post,
Because it is alone of all things happy.
I am contented, for I know that Quiet
Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart
Among pigeons and bees, while that Great Archer,
Who but awaits His house to shoot, still hands
A cloudy quiver over Pairc-na-lee.
“The common growth of Mother Earth
Suffices me,—her tears, her mirth,
Her humblest mirth and tears.”
Prologue, stanza 27.
Peter Bell (1798)
Four Riddles, no. III
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)
“Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.”
Dancing of Sounds http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21378/Dancing_of_Sounds
From the poems written in English
“Gather your strength and listen; the whole heart of man is a single outcry.”
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: Gather your strength and listen; the whole heart of man is a single outcry. Lean against your breast to hear it; someone is struggling and shouting within you.
It is your duty every moment, day and night, in joy or in sorrow, amid all daily necessities, to discern this Cry with vehemence or restraint, according to your nature, with laughter or with weeping, in action or in thought, striving to find out who is imperiled and cries out.
And how we may all be mobilized together to free him.