 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.  Lord Byron's Works ... - Seite 218von George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1850 - 790 Seiten
...Coleridge's Christabet, it may oftentimes be said of brothers, whose love is rent asunder : "Alas 1 they bad been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can...And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be it-roth n.iil one ice love. Doth work lite madness in the train." Too often, perchance, it happens,... | |
 | Mrs. Henry S. Mackarness - 1853 - 424 Seiten
...her head resting on her bosom. CHAPTER XII. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whisp'ring tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in...; And life is thorny, and youth is vain, And to be wrath with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain." — Coleridge. IT is still glorious weather,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 712 Seiten
...whispering tongues can goisjn truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny, ; ancl youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
 | James L. W. West - 1978 - 244 Seiten
...affianced Nancy. "Twas the same, only somewhat modified, which Coleridge celebrates in his Christabel: "Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain." In the morning I continued my journey towards Knoxville, bidding farewell to "Singed Possum," who turned... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1982 - 304 Seiten
...refined habit of self-reflection, is illustrated by a passage on Friendship in the Second Part — Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
 | Francisco Lobo da Costa - 1991 - 302 Seiten
...youth: But whispering tongues con poison truth: And constaney lives in realms above; And life is thormy; and youth is vain: And to be wroth with one we love,...Doth work like madness in the brain. But never either foun another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aoof the scars remaining, Like cliffs,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1903 - 384 Seiten
...once thrown up between them, never lacked some arm or other to keep it in motion. CHAPTER VI Alas I they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues...life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth tvith one me love, Doth work lite madness in the brain. ***** Each spoke words of high disdain, And... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 Seiten
...Vaux of Tryermaine? Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; 410 And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny;...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, 415 With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 Seiten
...can poison truth ; And constancy Uve» In realm« above ; And life is thorny ; Mid youth Is Tain ; ame and sorrow deep in my heart's core: These I could bear, but canno ; 1816.] [1816. But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— The; stood... | |
 | Sui Sin Far - 1995 - 320 Seiten
...It was a beautiful friendship, and even now, in their anger, I know they are loving one another." " 'And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain!' " quoted the professor. "Oh, Kate, my bonny, bonny Kate, cease talking and thinking about other people... | |
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