We look before and after,
And sigh for what is not.
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those
that tell of saddest thought [ Shelley ]
Swell bosom, with thy fraught,
For 'tis of aspics' tongues. [ William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 3, Sc. 3 ]
O, weary hearts! O, slumbering eyes!
O, drooping souls whose destinies
Are fraught with fear and pain,
Ye shall be loved again! [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]
Hell, their fit habitation, fraught with fire
Unquenchable, the house of woe and pain. [ Milton ]
They are the heritage that glorious minds
Bequeath unto the world! — a glittering store
Of gems, more precious far than those he finds
Who searches miser's hidden treasures over.
They are the light, the guiding star of youth.
Leading his spirit to the realms of thought,
Pointing the way to Virtue, Knowledge, Truth,
And teaching lessons, with deep wisdom fraught.
They cast strange beauty round our earthly dreams,
And mystic brightness over our daily lot;
They lead the soul afar to fairy scenes,
Where the world's under visions enter not;
They're deathless and immortal — ages pass away,
Yet still they speak, instruct, inspire, amidst decay! [ Emeline S. Smith ]
With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught. [ Waller ]
O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit! [ Queen Elizabeth ]
Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. [ William Shakespeare ]
Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions. [ Horace Bushnell ]