 Alas! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5061817Full view - About this book
 | E M. P - 1861 - 314 pages
...trust herself again on the lake in company with Hero, or without experienced boatmen. K^ CHAPTER VII. " Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ; A word unkind or wrongly taken, A breath, a touch like this hath shaken. And hearts so lately mingled... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die ! FROM " THE LIGHT OF THE HAREM." ALAS ! how light a cause may move Dissension between...off, Like ships, that have gone down at sea, When Heaven was all tranquillity! A something light as air — a look, A word unkind or wrongly taken —... | |
 | Charlotte Maria Tucker - 1862 - 242 pages
...Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between those that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied, That stood...fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity 1 A something light as air, — a look, A word unkind or wrongly taken,—... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 pages
...spring-lock, that lay in ambush there, Fasten'd her down for everl ROGERS. 128. INSTABILITY OF AFFECTION. ALAS ! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a... | |
 | 1864 - 576 pages
...yet we parted that day upon the bank by the willows, and were strangers henceforth and for ever. " So light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love, Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied, That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a... | |
 | Clarisse (pseud.) - 1862 - 304 pages
...offend him, therefore could not account for the change in his manner. We may say with the poet — Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love. Mr. Fitzroy was certainly disturbed — we cannot tell •why ; he saw he had insulted his son's feelings,... | |
 | Allet (pseud.) - 1862 - 390 pages
...defended him as warmly as he felt he should have defended her had any one dared to speak against her. " Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! " The effect this wounded feeling had had in breaking down all his newly-formed good resolutions... | |
 | Johannes Scotus (pseud.) - 1862 - 300 pages
...cried the happy girl ; and that night she dreamed she was the bride of Lord Wentworth ! CHAPTER VI. " Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love." — Moore. " But when I older grew, Joining a corsair's crew, O'er the dark wave I flew With the marauders... | |
 | Frances Sargent Locke Osgood - 1863 - 310 pages
...not think it necessary to add a single word of explanation, as they felt sure of being understood. Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between...fall off Like ships, that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity! A something, light as air — a look, A word unkind or wrongly taken —... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1863 - 580 pages
...brings out the young and fair, Does she, the fairest, hide her brow, In melancholy stillness now ? Alas — how light a cause may move Dissension between...fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity ! A something light as air — a look, A word unkind or wrongly taken —... | |
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