 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
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...broken friendships : — Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison tune beguiling ; I've felt all its favours, and found its decay: Sweet \outh is vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...SCOTT. THE QUARREL OF FRIENDS. 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 chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 846 pages
...UNFINISHED POEM OF CHRISTABEL.] 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 Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...had been friends in youth. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ! And...with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain ; And thus it chanc'd as I divine. With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each speak words of high disdain And... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...had been friends in youth. " 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 chanc'il as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each speak words of high disdain And... | |
 | France - 1845 - 484 pages
...able to restore it to their bosoms. In the words of the poet — " They parted ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow...paining ; They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliff's which hud been rent asunder.*1 COLERIDGE. Every revolution of this nature produced changes... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine f 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 t And to be wroth with one we love. Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - English poetry - 1846 - 350 pages
...musical lines of Christabel : Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering to:iguos can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. i man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher." True as this... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 276 pages
...lingering look behind? — Gray. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And...with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Uoluiul and Sir Leoliiie. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
 | Forest Hill - 1846 - 920 pages
...drawing-room alone. CHAPTER III. 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. COLRRIDGE CHRISTABEL. "WHERE'S Emily, I wonder?" said the soft languid voice of Lady King, (she always... | |
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