 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.  Poetical Works of Coleridge & Keats - Page 162by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1878Full view - About this book
 | 1816 - 592 pages
...; 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...To free the hollow heart from paining— They stood nloof, the ecars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A drrary sea now flows between,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1816 - 82 pages
...Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny...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 insult to... | |
 | John Bickerton - 1816 - 70 pages
...Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny...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 insult to his... | |
 | 1816 - 676 pages
...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;...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 insult to... | |
 | 1824 - 984 pages
...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... | |
 | 1854 - 758 pages
...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...best brother; They parted — ne'er to meet again ! Bnt never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining; — They stood aloof, the scars... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 212 pages
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pages
...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...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 insult to his... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 pages
...is vain; And to be wroth 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...high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother, And parted ne'er to meet again! But neither ever found another To free the hollow heart from paining... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...,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...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 insult to his... | |
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