mirth (n.)
- amusement
- buoyancy
- cheer
- cheerfulness
- diversion
- enjoyment
- entertainment
- frivolity
- frolic
- fun
- gaiety
- gladness
- glee
- gleefulness
- happiness
- hilarity
- jocularity
- jocundity
- jolliness
- jollity
- joviality
- joy
- joyfulness
- joyousness
- laughter
- levity
- lightheartedness
- merriment
- merriness
- merrymaking
- mirthfulness
- pastime
- pleasure
- recreation
- rejoicing
- relaxation
- revelry
- solace
mirth (v.)
As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious,
The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.
O Mirth and Innocence! O milk and water!
Ye happy mixtures of more happy days.
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.
The common growth of Mother Earth
Suffices me,—her tears, her mirth,
Her humblest mirth and tears.
Where lives the man that has not tried
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!
You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good meeting,
With most admir'd disorder.
Far from all resort of mirth
Save the cricket on the hearth.
From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth.
With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole.
A merrier man,
Within the limit of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hour's talk withal.
At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
But like of each thing that in season grows.
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth:
If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
I remember, I remember
How my childhood fleeted by,—
The mirth of its December
And the warmth of its July.
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
In mirth that after no repenting draws.
