 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
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 606 pagina’s
...contention being once thrown up between them, never lacked some arm or other to keep it in motion. А1м ! they had been friends in youth ; but whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life i . thorny, and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 688 pagina’s
...Alas I they hail been friends in youth; And 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, Dotll WJrk like madness in the brain. " No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same... | |
 | Henry Thomas Day - 1848 - 120 pagina’s
...diamond Star That wanders far, And claims his rites From mortal sprites. THE MANIAC. THE MANIAC. " 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1849 - 290 pagina’s
...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...; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like nradness in the brain : And thus it chanc'd as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each speak words... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pagina’s
...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 lore. Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine. With Roland and Sir Leoline.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pagina’s
...name, Why wax'd 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 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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pagina’s
...upon my bier, In the same coffin, for the self-same grave ! FROM " CHIUSTABEL." SEVERED FRIENDSHIP. 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,... | |
 | 1883 - 676 pagina’s
...think it has been noticed that the well-known lines in Coleridge's Christabel (pt. ii.),— "Alus ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth," and what follows, very closely resemble a passage in Spenser's Fairy Queen, iv. 4, stanzas 1 and 2. The... | |
 | 1851 - 416 pagina’s
...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...: And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madueas in the brain." Coleridge's Chrittabel. DEATH dissolves the hallowed links of friendship, and... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 pagina’s
...twilight mysticism, we have occasional gushes of glowing human tenderness, such as the following : — " 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... | |
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