 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.  It may be true - Page 179by Kate Wood - 1865Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1816 - 82 pages
...o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy...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. And thus it charic'd, as I... | |
 | 1816 - 676 pages
...the vilest jargon we ever had toe misfortune to read : " Alas! they hail been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy...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. And thus itchanc'd, as I divine,... | |
 | John Bickerton - Farrago - 1816 - 70 pages
...o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy...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. And thus it chanc'd, as I... | |
 | 1816 - 612 pages
...tbe pas»age which contains it: — " Alas! they had been friends in youth; But nhUp'rinir ionguos can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny ; and M>ntlt is vain; And to be wroth w ith one we Inve, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it... | |
 | 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 ; 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1817 - 212 pages
...full but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summer's ocean. Alas! they had been friends in Youth; But 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine, who had been friends in youth. " Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy...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: And thus it chanc'd as I divine,... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...Hougomont, And fields of WATERLOO. «R LEOLTNE. ,VT CoieriOge. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy...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. And thus it chanc'd, as I... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 306 pages
...ocean. FARE THEE WELL. " Alls ! they had been friends in Youth; "But whispering tongues can fpoison 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 : ******* " But never either... | |
 | mrs. Ross - 1821 - 688 pages
...Avondel had not-been able to procure for her. CHAP. XXI. " Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy...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.1* COLERIDGE. ANN Fitzelm declared... | |
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