 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 works of lord Byron - Page 200by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820Full view - About this book
 | 1816 - 676 pages
...toe misfortune to read : " Alas! they hail been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above; And life...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
...Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And...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... | |
 | John Bickerton - Farrago - 1816 - 70 pages
...Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1816 - 82 pages
...insult to his heart's best brother: They parted—ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another A To free the hollow heart from 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 thunder, Shall... | |
 | 1816 - 612 pages
...pas»age which contains it: — " Alas! they had been friends in youth; But nhUp'rinir ionguos can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny ; and M>ntlt is vain; And to be wroth w ith one we Inve, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 336 pages
...speaking ot the estrangement of two who "had been friends in youth ; — '* But never either fonnd another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like clifls, which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost,... | |
 | England - 1854 - 758 pages
...whispering tongues can poison trnth : And constancy dwells in realms above; And life is thorny ; and yonth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like maduess in the brain. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother; They... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...had been friends in youth. " Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life...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... | |
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