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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. "
The poetical works of lord Byron, with life - Page 497
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 576 pages
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The Augustan review, Volume 3

1816 - 676 pages
...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. And thus itchanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain, And...
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An Address to the Literary Members of the University

John Bickerton - 1816 - 70 pages
...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. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And...
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Christabel: Kubla Khan : a Vision ; The Pains of Sleep

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1816 - 242 pages
...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. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And...
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The Literary Panorama and National Register

1816 - 592 pages
...hispcring tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realm! abore , And life i« thorny and youth is vain : And to be wroth with 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...
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The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 70

1816 - 612 pages
...words of hipli di-dnin And insult to his heart's best brother; They purled — ni-'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining—- They stood aloof, Ihesrni-f remaining,' //lite cl(tr* which find Item rent itiunicrf jl tfi-rni if sea nnirjtftui tetttttn...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: The siege of Corinth. Parisina ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 212 pages
...whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above: And Dfe is thorny ; andyouth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work...hollow heart from paining— They stood aloof, the scars remaining. Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither...
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Spirit of the English Magazines

1824 - 984 pages
...tongues can poison truth ¡ Ала 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 : They parted ne'er to meet again,— But never either found another To free the hollow heart from...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 76

1854 - 758 pages
...words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother; They parted — ne'er to meet again ! Bnt never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining; — They stood aloof, the scars remaiinng, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between ; — Bnt...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 pages
...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: And thus it chanc'd as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And...
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British melodies, extracts from the modern poets [signed J.H.R.].

British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...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. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And...
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