 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.  Sunday snowdrops, lay sermons - Sida 78efter Walter Lionel Bicknell - 1880Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1816 - 82 sidor
...Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it charic'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
 | 1816 - 676 sidor
...misfortune to read : " Alas! they hail been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny;...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus itchanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain, And... | |
 | John Bickerton - 1816 - 70 sidor
...Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
 | 1816 - 592 sidor
...; But «• hispcring tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realm! abore , And life i« 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 Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain, And... | |
 | 1824 - 984 sidor
...Chrlstabel. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ¡ Ала constancy lives in realms above : And life is thorny...with 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 from... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 212 sidor
...whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above: And Dfe is thorny ; andyouth is vain : And to be wroth 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... | |
 | 1854 - 758 sidor
...whispering tongues can poison trnth : And constancy dwells in realms above; And life is thorny ; and yonth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like maduess in the brain. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother; They... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 sidor
...friends in youth. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth) And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny...with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain : And thus it chanc'd as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 sidor
...,VT CoieriOge. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny...one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 sidor
...lengthen when begun. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above : And life is thorny...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... | |
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