 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 406 pages
...; With a full but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summer's ocean. FARE THEE WELL. Alas I they h.-ul been friends in Youth ; But whispering tongues can...And Life is thorny ; and youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain : But never either found another To free... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...displays throughout to make his lordship appear more sinned against thau sinning : FARE THEE WELL. ' Alas ! they had been friends in youth.; But whispering...And constancy lives in realms above : And life is thomjr ; and youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain •... | |
 | 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...And life is thorny, and youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. ******** They parted — ne'er to meet... | |
 | 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 wroth with one we love. Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as 1 divine, Wilh... | |
 | 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,—... | |
 | 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...; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. ***** Each spoke words of high disdain,... | |
 | 1834 - 512 pages
...convicting either of them of plagiarism, but to prove that our author suffers nothing in the comparison: " Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...And life is thorny; and 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 628 pages
...she really the daughter of Roland de Vaux, and would the friends have met again and embraced ? — ' Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...life is thorny — and 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... | |
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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. 
