 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.  The works of lord Byron - Page 200by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...tongnee can poison truth; And constancy livea in realms alien r: And Life is thorny; and youth 1« p 1 1@ 1 madnesa in the brain: ****** lint never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining—... | |
 | Eton miscellany - 1827 - 532 pages
...and sir Leoline : — . " 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 wrath with one we love, • i Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine,... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above : And life is thomjr ; and youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love...hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the ecara remaining, Like clLffa, which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between •Bat neither... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...DISSENSION FROM CALUMNY. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Rowland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...that looks up to the sky. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison s and sleeps on his own heart. But he is weak, both...Contented if he might enjoy The things which others under And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain ( And... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1828 - 386 pages
...de Vaux of Tryeraiaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth And constancy lives in realms above ; And life...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... | |
 | Scotland - 1828 - 1538 pages
...the words of a poet, whom it scarce beseems me to praise, and who needs no praise of mine : — For to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. STC Hamlet loved Ophelia in his happy youth, when all iiis thoughts were fair and sweet as she. But... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine? Alas! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above , And life is thorny; and youtb is rain : And to be wroth with one we lore. Doth work like madness iu the brain. And thus it... | |
 | 1831 - 596 pages
...following passage is beautiful. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above, And life...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. ******** They parted — ne'er to meet again ; But never either found another To free the hollow heart... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...lîolaiid de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongue» can poison eans, and the deserts, and the abysse«, And the deep air's unmeasured wildernesses, Answer And thus it chanced, as 1 divine, Wilh Roland and Sir Leolino. Kach «pake words of high disdain And... | |
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