 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 342 pages
...patriam, patriam desiderat ! — illa carenti Sola, licet vita sit redimenda, domus ! XI. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy dwells in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 860 pages
...Christabel :— ' Alas ! they bad been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poiKon troth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth i« vain : And to bo wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness on the brain. And thus it chanced,... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...patriam, patriam desiderat ! - illa carenti Sola, licet vita sit redimenda, domus ! XII. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy dwells in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 352 pages
...Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 606 pages
...once thrown up between them, never lacked some arm or other to keep it in motion. А1м ! they had been friends in youth ; but whispering tongues can...truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life i . thorny, and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.... | |
 | Francisco Lobo da Costa - 1991 - 302 pages
...youth: But whispering tongues con poison truth: And constaney lives in realms above; And life is thormy; and youth is vain: And to be wroth with one we love,...Doth work like madness in the brain. But never either foun another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aoof the scars remaining, Like cliffs,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1903 - 384 pages
...thrown up between them, never lacked some arm or other to keep it in motion. CHAPTER VI Alas I they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can...life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth tvith one me love, Doth work lite madness in the brain. ***** Each spoke words of high disdain, And... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 268 pages
...Vaux of Tryermaine? Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; 410 And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny;...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, 415 With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...can poison truth ; And constancy Uve» In realm« above ; And life is thorny ; Mid youth Is Tain ; ame and sorrow deep in my heart's core: These I could bear, but canno ; 1816.] [1816. But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— The; stood... | |
 | Sui Sin Far - Fiction - 1995 - 320 pages
...It was a beautiful friendship, and even now, in their anger, I know they are loving one another." " 'And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain!' " quoted the professor. "Oh, Kate, my bonny, bonny Kate, cease talking and thinking about other people... | |
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. 
