Alas — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain has tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down... Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance - Page 302by Thomas Moore - 1839 - 397 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1817 - 708 pages
...truly, if it contained many such passages, it would have admirers enough in spite of our criticism. " Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain has tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a... | |
| 1817 - 522 pages
...relationship or friendship, and for their sakes we will finish our extracts with transcribing it, " Alas — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain has tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 428 pages
...Fairy-land, whose streets and towers Are made of gems and light and flowers! — Where is the loved Sultana ? where, When mirth brings out the young and fair, Does...fairest, hide her brow, In melancholy stillness now ? * In the Malay language the same word signifies women and Bowcri. THE LIGHT OF THE HARAM. Alas —... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 pages
...whose streets and towers Are made of gems and light and flowers! — ' Where is the loved Sultana ? where, When mirth brings out the young and fair, Does...fairest, hide her brow, In melancholy stillness now ? * In the Malay language the same word signifies women and flowers. t The capital of Shadukiam. See... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1825 - 326 pages
...fairy-land, whose streets and towers Are made of gems and light and flowers ! Where is the lov'd Sultana ? where, When mirth brings out the young and fair, Does...stillness now ? Alas— how light a cause may move Dissensions between hearts that love I Heaits that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more... | |
| John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...That heavenly guide to all that live, Himself shall lose the way. Montgomery. The Fickleness of Love. ALAS ! how light a cause may move , , : . Dissension...between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain has tried, . And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet,in... | |
| Marianne Spencer Stanhope Hudson - 1827 - 428 pages
...without saying, " L'Art n'est pas fait pour toi; tu n'en as pas besoin." CHAPTER II. EMBARRASSMENTS. " Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love— A something light as air!—a look! A word unkind, or wrongly taken— Oh ! love that tempests never... | |
| Marianne Spencer Stanhope Hudson - 1827 - 440 pages
...without saying, " L'Art n'est pas fait pour toi ; tu n'en as pas besoin." CHAPTER II. EMBARRASSMENTS. " Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love — A something light as air ! — a look ! A word unkind, or wrongly taken — Oh ! love that tempests... | |
| John Cordingley - 1827 - 182 pages
...ascend in the air, but the slightest discomposure not unfrequently destroys the balance of either; " Alas, how light a cause may move ' " Dissension between hearts that love ! " I shall therefore only express a conviction that the original causes of this disagreement were... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...icy lake When thawing suns begin to shine, Than trust to love so false as thine ! MUTABILITV OF LOVE. ALAS !— how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! (a) The hudhud, or lapwing, is supposed to have the power of discovering water under ground. Hearts... | |
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