 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
 | Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 pages
...thought gave him even more pleasure than did the bright smile of his promised bride. CHAPTER XXII. Constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. COLEIUDOE. EVELYN remained in her chamber in deep dejection. She had now no consolation in her distress.... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 484 pages
...Coleridge:— " 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. • » * • * * • * But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— They... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 272 pages
...behind? — Gray. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues ean 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... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 342 pages
...ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy dwells in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is...with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother; They parted — ne'er to meet... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy dwells in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is...with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother ; They parted - ne'er to meet... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...PARE THEE WELL. Alu ! the; had been friends in Youth, But whisper inj tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above : And Life is thorny;...be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness on the brain. ***** But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - English poetry - 1846 - 350 pages
...they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poisn" ' And constancy lives in realr* And life is thorny ; and youth is vain And to be wroth...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... | |
 | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin - 1846 - 954 pages
...vexation of his heart — the unacknowledged sorrow that all should seem thus wrong; and feeling that— ' Life is thorny, and youth is vain, And to be wroth...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain, — ' he wrote to Sir Frederic to request that he might come back, if only for a few days, to the Hall.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 352 pages
...Tryermaine ? 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 606 pages
...youth ; but whispering tongues can poison 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. • * N * * « Each spoke words of high disdain, And insult to his heart's dear brother, But never... | |
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