 | Arts - 1853 - 390 pages
...which it behoves ALL of us to listen ; and, it must be remembered, "we arc never too old to learn."] ALAS ! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain has tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...with the dawning of morn, And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. CAMPBELL. LOVE'S DISSENSIONS. ALAS ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...That were not born to die ! THE FICKLENESS OF LOVE. An exquisite passage from MOOBE'S Lalla Booleh. ALAS ! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain has tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm... | |
 | 1853 - 526 pages
...cannot leave it till he has written it almost away. Take an instance from The Light of the Harem. ' Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...the first, the only sense Of guiltless joy that guilt can know MOORE. FROM THK LIGHT OF THE HABAM. Alas ! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish poetry - 1854 - 316 pages
...brings out the young and fair, Does she, the fairest, hide her brow, In melancholy stillness now ? Alas ! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! * In the Malay language the same word signifies women and flowers. t The capital of Shadukiam. See... | |
 | 1882 - 858 pages
...more and more nervous and combative, as the animal instinct of self-will grows stronger and stronger. Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love, when the noble quality of firmness is in this way misapplied. We might mention innumerable instances... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1856 - 830 pages
...brings out the young and fair, Does sbe, the fairest, hide her brow, In melancholy stillness now ? Alas ! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 't was the first to fade away. The Light of the Harem. Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...Blushes, though for no transgression, Trembling, when met, and restlessness when left. 3Lobe. — Moore. ALAS — how light a cause may move Dissension between Hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the Storm,... | |
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Alas! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down... 
