 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 Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Page 70by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 546 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...clad as she — Beautiful exceedingly ! Л finer passage is that describing broken friendships : — nd, Disordered, through her currents dash, To gain...tale, And raise the universal wail. Tradition, lege love. Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I diviue, With Roland and Sir Leoline.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...clad as she — Beautiful exceedingly ! A finer passage is that describing broken friendships : — y. The Flmrm of the Forest. [By Mrs Cockbum.] I've...I've felt all its favours, and found its decay: Sweet \outh is vain : And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pages
...Alas, they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constaney dwells 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. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Koland and Sir Leoline.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 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...! 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 Sir Leoline.... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 846 pages
...Genevieve, My bright and beauteous bride ! BROKEN FRIENDSHIP. [FROM THE UNFINISHED POEM OF CHRISTABEL.] ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...; 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.... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...startled Scotland loud should ring, ' Revenge for blood and treachery !' " SCOTT. THE QUARREL OF FRIENDS. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...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 Sir Leoline.... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 484 pages
...us, by its proximity to the Cadr, of those beautiful lines from the " Christabel" of Coleridge:— " Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering...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... | |
 | Forest Hill - 1846 - 920 pages
...she cried. " Emily ! Emily I" exclaimed Alick, but he stood in the drawing-room alone. CHAPTER III. Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering...thorny, and youth is vain, And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. COLRRIDGE CHRISTABEL. "WHERE'S Emily, I wonder?" said the... | |
 | Gift - 1846 - 268 pages
...Crown'd with mercy, O ! how sweet Will eternal friendship be ! CW THOMPSON. THE QUARREL OP FRIENDS. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth : But whispering...; 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... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 276 pages
...Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind? — Gray. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering...; 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 Uoluiul and Sir Leoliiie.... | |
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