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. The poetical works of lord Byron, with life - Page 447by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 576 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Bickerton - Farrago - 1816 - 70 pages
...pale, 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...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
| 1816 - 676 pages
...appears to us to be the vilest jargon we ever had toe misfortune to read : " Alas! they hail been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus itchanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain, And... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1816 - 242 pages
...pale, 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...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
| English literature - 1816 - 592 pages
...; But «• hispcring tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realm! abore , And life i« 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 Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain, And... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1817 - 212 pages
...whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above: And Dfe is thorny ; andyouth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work...paining— They stood aloof, the scars remaining. Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor... | |
| 1824 - 984 pages
...Chrlstabel. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ¡ Ала constancy lives in realms above : And life is thorny...with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain : They parted ne'er to meet again,— But never either found another To free the hollow heart from... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...and Sir Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine, who had been friends in youth. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth)...with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain : And thus it chanc'd as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 306 pages
...ocean. FARE THEE WELL. " Alls ! they had been friends in Youth; "But whispering tongues can fpoison truth ; " And constancy lives in realms above : "...— " They stood aloof, the scars remaining;" Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder ; *• A dreary sea now flows between, "But neither heat, nor frost,... | |
| British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...towers of Hougomont, And fields of WATERLOO. «R LEOLTNE. ,VT CoieriOge. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...full but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summer's ocean. FARE THEE WELL. " Alas! they had been friends in Youth; " But whispering tongues can poison truth...paining— " They stood aloof, the scars remaining, " Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder ; ** A dreary sea now flows between, " But neither heat, nor frost,... | |
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