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
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 712 pagina’s
...name, Why waxed Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux oi 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,... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 pagina’s
...ever gaze on their own drooping eyes, Reflected in the crystal calm. SHELLET. DISJOINTED 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 Doth... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pagina’s
...quarrel between Sir Lcoline and Sir Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine, who had been friends in youth. " 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,... | |
| Anne Beale - 1855 - 360 pagina’s
...are perhaps divided as the rock by the earthquake, never again to be united. 112 CHAPTER XXI. • " 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... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1855 - 434 pagina’s
...to pass it over in silence or to pronounce upon it with certainty. DOMESTIC PIECES. FABE 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,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1855 - 438 pagina’s
...whispering tongues can poisun truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny, ainl ynuth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love. Doth work like madncss in the brain. Each spoke words of In: Ji disdain, And insult to his heart's ilcnr brother,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pagina’s
...things, both great and small. A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn. Christabel. Part 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,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 432 pagina’s
...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 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,... | |
| 1857 - 336 pagina’s
...friends, and the sublimest image of a broken friendship to be found in the whole range of poetry : — " 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 Tain : And to be wroth with one we love Doth... | |
| Howard Hayne Caldwell - 1858 - 152 pagina’s
...heart its lessons shall be laid While memory keeps them aye too bright to fade! THE ESTRANGEMENT. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth — But whispering...tongues can poison truth, And constancy dwells in realm! shove ; And life is thorny, and youth is Tain ; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like... | |
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