 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
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...FROM CALUMNY. 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 Rowland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 406 pages
...THEE WELL. Alas I they h.-ul 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, the scars... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...up to the sky. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And on his own heart. But he is weak, both Man and Boy,...Contented if he might enjoy The things which others under And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain ( And... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1828 - 386 pages
...of Tryeraiaine ? 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... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above : And life is thomjr ; and youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain • • ••••• But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They... | |
 | Scotland - 1828 - 1538 pages
...the words of a poet, whom it scarce beseems me to praise, and who needs no praise of mine : — For to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. STC Hamlet loved Ophelia in his happy youth, when all iiis thoughts were fair and sweet as she. But... | |
 | 1831 - 596 pages
...beautiful. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above, And life is thorny,...found another To free the hollow heart from paining." — It is proper to remark that the whole piece has received the warmest approbation of distinguished... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...of Tryermaine ? Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongue» can poison truth ; And e deserts, and the abysse«, And the deep air's unmeasured wildernesses, Answer And thus it chanced, as 1 divine, Wilh Roland and Sir Leolino. Kach «pake words of high disdain And... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 864 pages
...embraced ? — ' 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. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
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