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" 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. "
Impressions at home and abroad; or, A year of real life - Page 233
by James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1837
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Christabel: Kubla Khan : a Vision ; The Pains of Sleep

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1816 - 242 pages
...Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above...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, With Roland and...
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An Address to the Literary Members of the University

John Bickerton - Farrago - 1816 - 70 pages
...Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above...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, With Roland and...
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The Augustan review, Volume 3

1816 - 676 pages
...we ever had toe misfortune to read : " Alas! they hail been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above;...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, With Roland and...
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Spirit of the English Magazines

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 again,— But never either...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...Tryermaine, who had been friends in youth. " Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above;...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, With Roland and...
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British melodies, extracts from the modern poets [signed J.H.R.].

British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...WATERLOO. «R LEOLTNE. ,VT CoieriOge. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above...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, With Roland and...
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The works of lord Byron, Volume 4

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 : "...thorny; and youth is vain : ".And to be wroth with one we love, " Doth work like madness in the brain : ******* " But never either found another " To...
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Lord Byron's Works ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...stories somehow lengthen when begun. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above...is thorny ; and youth 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...
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The woman of genius [by mrs. Ross].

mrs. Ross - 1821 - 688 pages
...able to procure for her. CHAP. XXI. " Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above...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 to her family that...
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The works of lord Byron, comprehending the suppressed poems, Volumes 5-6

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 614 pages
...of Summer's ocean. FARE THEE WELL ! Alas ! they had been friends in Youth ; But -whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above...thorny ; and youth 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...
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