 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.  The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge - Page 44by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...fragments lie. POPE. 11. From loveless youth to unrespected age, No passion gratified, except her rage. 12. And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. COLERIDGE. 13. Of all bad things by which mankind are curs'd, Their own bad tempers surely are the... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1847 - 338 pages
...of the duty of self-examination, but dwelt still upon what she believed to be Margaret's weakness. " To be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain." Beatrice was not " wroth," but she was annoyed and suspicious. For nearly half an hour she walked to... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 414 pages
...Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison 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—•... | |
 | Henry Thomas Day - 1848 - 120 pages
...THE MANIAC. THE MANIAC. " Alas ! they had been Friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth : And constancy lives in realms above, And life...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 688 pages
...musical lines of Christabel: Alas I they hail been friends in youth; And whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life...youth is vain, ' And to be wroth with one we love, Dotll WJrk like madness in the brain. " No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same... | |
 | Andrew Thomson, Gavin Struthers - 1848 - 370 pages
...fierce contention, and ending at once in the rupture of private friendships and of public bonds. ' Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother.' ' The Lord had divided them in his anger, and covered the daughter of Zion with a thick cloud, giving... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1849 - 290 pages
...had been friends in youth. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ! And...; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like nradness in the brain : And thus it chanc'd as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each speak words... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pages
...Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine t Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth And constancy lives in realms above. And life...; and youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we lore. Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine. With Roland and Sir Leoline.... | |
 | Alfred Jackson, Effingham Wilson - 1849 - 222 pages
...harder to be won than a strong city" ; what fire can rage so fiercely as love turned to anger? for — " to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain." Nothing but a thorough and decisive disunion, we conceive, can be the result of such a state of feeling... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pages
...Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine > Alas .' they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above, And life...like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as 1 divine With Roland and Sir Leoline Each spake words of high Jisdjun And insult to his heart's best... | |
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