 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.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Pagina 5721854Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 286 pagina’s
...along the wave, As dives a hero headlong to his grave." BYRON — The Island, c. ii. st. xvi. II. " 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pagina’s
...name, Why wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again. Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryennainc ? beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which lives in realms above, And life is thorny ; and youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love. Doth... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 456 pagina’s
...beauty of the " lady of a far countrie," when we read these among other musical lines of Christabel : 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,... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 988 pagina’s
...beauty of the " lady of a far countrie," when we read these among other musical lines of Christabel : 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,... | |
 | 1841 - 908 pagina’s
...beauty of the " lady of a far countrie," when we read these among other musical lines of Christabel : Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms alrave ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to he wroth with one we love,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pagina’s
...and adore thee ; With a full but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summer's ocean. 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 ; and youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love,... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 pagina’s
...twig that looks tip at the sky. Hanging so light, and hanging so high, THE DISSOLUTION OF FRIENDSHIP. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth: But whispering tongues can poison truth j And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain: And to be wroth with... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...clad as she — Beautiful exceedingly ! A finer passage is that describing broken friendships : — y. The Flmrm of the Forest. [By Mrs Cockbum.] I've seen the smiling Of Fortune beguiling ; I've lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and \outh is vain : And to be wroth with one we love,... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pagina’s
...stndies it will, we believe, hold the clue to a large part of the problem of the poet's life : — Alas, they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constaney dwells in realms above, And life is thorny, and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1844 - 512 pagina’s
...friendship, and adapted to promote each other's happiness, of whom it may be said with melancholy truth, " Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth." What then is the part which friendship ought to act in a case where rumor is strong against a friend... | |
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