laughters

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Shall we sorrow that the laughters, left the shadows of the way, And the cares of life unlifting fringed the rosy skies with gray?

From Oklahoma Sunshine by Miller, Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin)

The human cadence and the subtle chime Of little laughters, home and child and wife, He knew not.

From Chimneysmoke by Morley, Christopher

What fates for ballast? by what voices grim      And laughters urged, your astral course I mark,-- Warped to what ports remote your hulks shall swim      Or anchor silent in what stagnant dark?

From The Masque of the Elements by Scheffauer, Herman George

There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world: O eyes sublime With tears and laughters for all time!

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Where hills made gibbous shadows in the moon, They heard the eldritch laughters of the wind, Seeming the mirth of death; and 'neath their gaze Gaunt valleys deepened like an old despair.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton