 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 Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge - Pagina 44door Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 331 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1846 - 484 pagina’s
...Christabel" of Coleridge:— " Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. • » * • * * • * But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— They... | |
 | Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 pagina’s
...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...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 distress.... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 pagina’s
...of heart. PARE THEE WELL. Alu ! the; had been friends in Youth, But whisper inj tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above : And...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... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 342 pagina’s
...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...with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother; They parted — ne'er to meet... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 372 pagina’s
...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...with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother ; They parted - ne'er to meet... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pagina’s
...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...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." True as... | |
 | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin - 1846 - 954 pagina’s
...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...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 the Hall.... | |
 | 1846 - 860 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 606 pagina’s
...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 work like madness in the brain. • * N * * « Each spoke words of high disdain, And insult to his heart's dear brother, But never... | |
 | 1847 - 526 pagina’s
...fragments lie. POPE. 11. From loveless youth to unrespected age, No passion gratified, except her rage. 12. And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. COLERIDGE. 13. Of all bad things by which mankind are curs'd, Their own bad tempers surely are the... | |
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