 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.  Exercises in Grammatical Analysis - Page 102by Edward Thring - 1868 - 224 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...name. Why wai'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...constancy lives in realms above , And life is thorny; and youtb is rain : And to be wroth with one we lore. Doth work like madness iu the brain. And thus it... | |
 | 1831 - 596 pages
...whole it has no meaning, and yet is exceedingly interesting. The following passage is beautiful. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. ******** They parted — ne'er to meet again ; But never either found another To free the hollow heart... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...Lord lîolaiid de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongue» ter. The oceans, and the deserts, and the abysse«,...And the deep air's unmeasured wildernesses, Answer 1 divine, Wilh Roland and Sir Leolino. Kach «pake words of high disdain And insult lo his heart's... | |
 | 1831 - 472 pages
...— Glasgow. She need not be ashamed of the poet who gave birth to the stanzas which he has entitled Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth. Beautiful one ! To me thou art Like a fairy mirror's glance, Fill'd with a legend of the heart,—... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn. [From Chrtitabel.l BROKEN FRIENDSHIPS. ALAS! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted — ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining—... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Covenanters - 1832 - 354 pages
...being once thrown up between them, never lacked some arm or other to keep it in motion. CHAPTER VI. Alas ! they had been friends in youth; But whispering...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. ***** Each spoke words of high disdain, And insult to his heart's dear brother, But never either found... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1835 - 394 pages
...de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering to/igues can poieon truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And...disdain And insult to his heart's best brother : They parted — ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 348 pages
...included in this Section. See MOORE'* Notices, ante, Vol. IIL p. 286. — E.] FARE THEE WELL. (') " Alas ! they had been friends in Youth ; But whispering...with 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... | |
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