 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
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother : They parted — ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow...paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like clifls which hod been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between. But neither heat, nor frost, nor... | |
 | Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies - 1838 - 1048 pages
...manycoloured ribbons of the Sullivans, she left the region of the past. D2 FITZHERBERT. CHAPTER III. " And to be wroth with one we love. Doth work like madness in the brain." COLERIDGE. HENRY Fitzherbert was for the first time in his life really and passionately in love; and... | |
 | Canadian poetry - 1838 - 746 pages
...with a dash of careless and melancholy humour, " O, Deborah, I see now how it is with you— . • To be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.' You cannot mean all this bitterness against me! Do you forget telling me all about O'Reilly and Ireland... | |
 | 1841 - 884 pages
...But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy dwell* in realms above, And life is thorny. Youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madrrass on the brain. So chanc'd it once as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline — They parted,... | |
 | 536 pages
...DISSOLUTION OF FRIENDSHIP. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth. And constancy lives in realms above ; And life...with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain ; And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spoke words of high disdain,... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...WHITE. FRIENDSHIP DESTROYED. 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, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 290 pages
...Island, c. ii. st. xvi. 11. " 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... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 286 pages
...Island, c. ii. st. xvi. II. " 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...Roland de Vaux of Tryennainc ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison % L4a' kLx niadiiesn in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine. With Kolnnd nnd Sir Leoline. Each spake words... | |
 | Francis Edward Paget - 1841 - 276 pages
...he grew angry, and called her firmness obstinacy, and her calmness want of feeling. And then (for " To be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain,") he left her with words of unkindness and reproaches, which, unjust as they were, were nevertheless... | |
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