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. Spirit of the English Magazines - Pàgina 3601824Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 pàgines
...following : — " Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And Constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny,...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline." As a man of genius, Coleridge appeared... | |
| 1851 - 408 pàgines
...Broken BY AHC " Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above, And life is thorny...we love, - . Doth work like madness in the brain." ColeridgJs Christabel. DEATH dissolves the hallowed links of friendship, and melts away like frost-work... | |
| George Gordon Byron - 1990 - 104 pàgines
...Byron Fare Thee Well Alas! they had been friends in Youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth: And constancy lives in realms above; And Life is thorny;...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain; But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars... | |
| Francisco Lobo da Costa - 1991 - 302 pàgines
...youth: But whispering tongues con poison truth: And constaney lives in realms above; And life is thormy; and youth is vain: And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. But never either foun another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aoof the scars remaining,... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1903 - 384 pàgines
...motion. CHAPTER VI Alas I 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 tvith one me love, Doth work lite madness in the brain. ***** Each spoke words of high disdain, And... | |
| Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 pàgines
...Tryermaine? Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; 410 And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny;...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, 415 With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain... | |
| George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pàgines
...can poison truth ; And constancy Uve» In realm« above ; And life is thorny ; Mid youth Is Tain ; ame and sorrow deep in my heart's core: These I could bear, but canno ; 1816.] [1816. But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— The; stood... | |
| Sui Sin Far - 1995 - 320 pàgines
...It was a beautiful friendship, and even now, in their anger, I know they are loving one another." " 'And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain!' " quoted the professor. "Oh, Kate, my bonny, bonny Kate, cease talking and thinking about other people... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pàgines
...Fare thee well! 'Alas! they had been friends in Youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And Life is thorny;...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain; But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining,... | |
| Cynthia Ozick - 1996 - 358 pàgines
...universal frame. Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above. And life is thorny,...to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness on the brain. So much for Longfellow, Shakespeare, Milton, and Coleridge. But also Addison, Cowper,... | |
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