 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.  Lord Byron's Works ... - Page 218by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821Full view - About this book
 | John Bickerton - 1816 - 70 pages
...name. Why wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1816 - 242 pages
...CHRISTABEL. Why wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...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 - 676 pages
...which appears to us to be the vilest jargon we ever had toe misfortune to read : " Alas! they hail been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can...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... | |
 | 1816 - 606 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 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 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 212 pages
...before thee, To listen and adore thee ; With a full but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summer's ocean. Alas! they had been friends in Youth; But whispering...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 - 1818 - 338 pages
...quarrel between Sir Leoline and Sir Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine, who had been friends in youth. " Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering...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 pages
...remember'd long, Shall live the towers of Hougomont, And fields of WATERLOO. «R LEOLTNE. ,VT CoieriOge. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...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... | |
 | mrs. Ross - 1821 - 700 pages
...whole period of her acquaintance with Miss Avondel had not-been able to procure for her. CHAP. XXI. " Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering...wroth with one we love, Doth worK like madness in the brain.1* COLERIDGE. ANN Fitzelm declared to her family that she thought the Countess of Athol the most... | |
 | 1823 - 696 pages
...acquainted with poetry, it is appropriated to its author. Mr. Coleridge's original is in Christabe]. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...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... | |
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