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. Christabelvon Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907 - 113 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 Seiten
...friends in Youth, But whisper inj 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 on the brain. ***** But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood... | |
| Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 352 Seiten
...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...chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother : They parted — ne'er to... | |
| Walter Scott - 1847 - 606 Seiten
...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 - 540 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1847 - 526 Seiten
...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... | |
| Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1847 - 338 Seiten
...of the duty of self-examination, but dwelt still upon what she believed to be Margaret's weakness. " To be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain." Beatrice was not " wroth," but she was annoyed and suspicious. For nearly half an hour she walked to... | |
| Henry Thomas Day - 1848 - 120 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 688 Seiten
...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1849 - 290 Seiten
...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 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 Seiten
...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.... | |
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