 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.  Forest Hill - Page 36by Forest Hill - 1846Full view - About this book
 | 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,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 352 pages
...name, Why waxed Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...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
...contention being 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...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.... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...confided to herself by C. AMBROSE BIERCE (1 842-1 914), US author. The OeviVs Dicf/oлагу(1881-1906). 4 he Passionate Slate of Mind, aph. 237 (1955). 6 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1 772-1834), English poei, critic. Chriitabet, pi. 2. 5 None are so fond of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 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... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 pages
...forthwith] forwith T6 394 into] within T3 Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de 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; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with... | |
 | Sui Sin Far - 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...should meet thee 30 After long years, How should I greet thee? With silence and tears. Fare thee well! 'Alas! they had been friends in Youth; But whispering...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain; But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining,... | |
 | Cynthia Ozick - 1996 - 358 pages
...false to any man. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! Thine this universal frame. Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering...to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness on the brain. So much for Longfellow, Shakespeare, Milton, and Coleridge. But also Addison, Cowper,... | |
 | Katharine Washburn, John F. Thornton - 1996 - 336 pages
...false to any man. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! Thine this universal frame. Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering...above, And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be worth with one we love Doth work like madness on the brain. So much for Longfellow, Shakespeare, Milton,... | |
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