 Alas ! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert ; whence arise But weeds of dark luxuriance, tares of haste, Rank at the core, though tempting to the eyes, Flowers whose wild odours breathe but agonies, And trees whose gums are poison...  The Western Journal - Page 1941851Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 336 pages
...The dull satiety which all destroys — And root from out the soul the deadly weed which cloys ? 1 Alas ! our young affections run to waste, Or water...arise But weeds of dark luxuriance, tares of haste, Eank at the core, though tempting to the eyes, Flowers whose wild odours breathe but agonies, And trees... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth. Canton. St. 115. 1 Cf. Don Juan, Canto iv. St. 12. Alas ! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. St. 120. I see before me the Gladiator lie. Canto iv. St. 140.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...passion left behind; A shrivell'd scroll, a scatter'd leaf, Sear'd by the autumn-blast of grief. BYRON. Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water...core, though tempting to the eyes, Flowers whose wild odours breathe but agonies, And trees whose gums are passion; such the plants Which spring beneath... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - Quotations, English - 1878 - 360 pages
...is often seen, By blunting us, to make our wits more keen. Ibid., Lover's Complaint. Affections. — Alas ! our young AFFECTIONS run to waste, Or water but the desert.— BYRON, Childe Harold. Affliction. — AFFLICTION is the wholesome soil of virtue ; Where patience,... | |
 | Where, Who - Quotations - 1878 - 186 pages
...Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! MOOEE, The Fire Worshippers. Alas, our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert. BYRON, Childe Hai-old. Alas, poor Yorick ! SHAKSPEAEE, Hamlet, act v. sc. 1. Alas ! regardless of their... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879 - 290 pages
...dull satiety which all destroys — And root from out the soul the deadly weed which cloys :' cxx. Alas ! our young affections run to waste, Or water...core, though tempting to the eyes, Flowers whose wild odours breathe but agonies, And trees whose gains are poison; such the plants Which spring beneath... | |
 | Isaac Brandon - 1811 - 598 pages
...— The dull satiety which all destroys — And root from out the soul the dentil v weed which clovs? Alas ! our young affections run to waste, Or water...core, though tempting to the eyes, Flowers whose wild odours breathe but agonies, And trees whose gums are poison ; such the plants Which spring beneath... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1879 - 670 pages
...that still remains of him : That single spot is the whole earth to me." COLF.RIDGE'S Wallcustcin, " Alas ! our young affections run to waste Or water but the desert." Childe Harold. THERE went a warrior's funeral through the night, A waving of tall plumes, a ruddy light... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...the soul the deadly weed which cloys ? cxx. Alas ! our young affections run to waste, Or water hut p o odours hreathe hut agonies, And trees whose gums are poison ; such the plants Which spring heneath... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1881 - 326 pages
...— The dull satiety which all destroys — And root from out the soul the deadly weed which cloys ? Alas ! our young affections run to waste, Or water...core, though tempting to the eyes, Flowers whose wild odours breathe but agonies, And trees whose gums are poison ; such the plants Which spring beneath... | |
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