 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...bier, In the same coffin, for the self-same grave ! FROM " CHIUSTABEL." SEVERED FRIENDSHIP. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...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... | |
 | 1851 - 408 pages
...Editor's Table, THE YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE. VOL. XVI. MARCH, 1851. No. V. ®!)e Broken BY AHC " Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...thorny ; and youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love, - . Doth work like madness in the brain." ColeridgJs Christabel. DEATH dissolves the hallowed... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 pages
...mysticism, we have occasional gushes of glowing human tenderness, such as the following : — " Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...is 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty. COLERIDQE. THE QUARREL OF FRIENDS. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth : But whispering tongues...is 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... | |
 | Forget-Me-Not, Forget-me-not - 1853 - 138 pages
...grief was at an end; I was a lonely being once, But now I have a friend. COLERIDGE. /hgnmri. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 728 pages
...• Murmuring o'er the name again, • • Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? . « .' Í 1 Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; . ' But whispering...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,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...Three times he smote on stomach stout, - From whence at length these words broke out. Jititler. Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues...above, And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wrath with one we love, T^nth work like madness on the brain. Coleridge. WREATH. I SENT thee late a... | |
 | 1850 - 790 pages
...Coleridge's Christabet, it may oftentimes be said of brothers, whose love is rent asunder : "Alas 1 they bad been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can...And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be it-roth n.iil one ice love. Doth work lite madness in the train." Too often, perchance, it happens,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 712 pages
...waxed Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux oi Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pages
...quarrel between Sir Lcoline and Sir Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine, who had been friends in youth. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues...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... | |
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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. 
