 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 woman of genius [by mrs. Ross]. - Page 143by mrs. Ross - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - English poetry - 1846 - 350 pages
...other musical lines of Christabel : Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering to:iguos can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above...wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. i man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher." True... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 272 pages
...lingering look behind? — Gray. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues ean poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above...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... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...sensibility and kindness of heart. PARE THEE WELL. Alu ! the; had been friends in Youth, But whisper inj tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in...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... | |
 | 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...wroth with 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... | |
 | 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 with 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."... | |
 | 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 with 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... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 342 pages
...fovet, Heu ! patriam, patriam desiderat ! — illa carenti Sola, licet vita sit redimenda, domus ! XI. 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 vain ; And to be wroth with one we love... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...fovet, Heu ! patriam, patriam desiderat ! - illa carenti Sola, licet vita sit redimenda, domus ! XII. 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 vain ; And to be wroth with one we love... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 860 pages
...Christabel :— ' Alas ! they bad been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poiKon troth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth i« vain : And to bo wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness on the brain. And thus it chanced,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 352 pages
...name, Why waxed Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...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... | |
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