 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.  Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 3601824Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 290 pages
...st. xvi. 11. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above, And life is thorny;...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
...Tryennainc ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth , And 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... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 456 pages
...Christabel : Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. "No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher." True as... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 988 pages
...Christabel : Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. " No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher." True as... | |
 | lady Henrietta Georgiana M. Chatterton - 1841 - 438 pages
...Foscari, the signora's cavaliere, and signor Allegri, and signor Rodrigo Manfredi." CHAPTER III. " And life is thorny, and youth is vain ; And to be...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain." COLERIDGE. WEEKS, months passed away, and the day was fixed for Theresa's marriage with Prince Carlo... | |
 | 1841 - 832 pages
...can poison truth ; And pon-itancy lire« in realms above ; Anil life is thorny ; »nd youth is vaui ; 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pages
...FARE THEE WELL. " Alas ! they had been friends in Youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above : And Life is thorny...with 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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...friendships : — Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And er, to down and dale, To tell red Flodden's dismal...Tradition, legend, tune, * Where shivered was fair Scotl And thus it chanced, as I diviue, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pages
...Alas, they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constaney dwells in realms above, And life is thorny, and youth is...with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Koland and Sir Leoline. Each spoke words of high disdain And... | |
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