 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
 | 1863 - 592 pages
...love ; a breach which the long lapse of years and the sober experience of life have failed to heal. " 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... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...so ; But I must also feel it as a man. SHARSPERE. — Macbeth, Act IV. Scene 8. DISSENSION.— Mas ! 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... | |
 | Selections - 1863 - 192 pages
...the dear spot ; I oft o'er his memory spend a fond tear — But such is the warrior's lot . Moore. ALAS ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world iu vain had tried , And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1884 - 466 pages
..." Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; Who stood the storms when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships which have gone down at sea When heaven was all serenity." ******* Soon after breakfast, Mary went... | |
 | Illustrated poems - 1885 - 370 pages
...: None but prisoners like me Know the worth of liberty. — MONTGOMERY. INSTABILITY OF FRIENDSHIP. 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... | |
 | They - 1885 - 92 pages
...if entered on in a sore spirit, may furnish new grounds of difference. No question is too small. '' 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... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...menaced to remove — If there be Love in mortals — this was Love ! . — Di-yden. UnVir. — Moore. 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, i'et in... | |
 | John Ross MacDuff - 1885 - 170 pages
...how light a thing may move Dissensions between hearts that love ; Hearts that the world in vain hath tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm when seas were rough, But in a sunny hour fell off; Like ships that have gone down at sea \Vhen heaven was... | |
 | 1886 - 552 pages
...God was the price of the world. JOAQUÍN MILLEB. ALAS! HOW LIGHT A CAUSE MAY MOVE. AS! how light я cause may move Dissension between hearts that love!...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,... | |
 | 1886 - 922 pages
...Smith, Elder * C» shared their lives, that which keeps them apart is knowledge, and not ignorance. " Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love," is not a reflection that throws much light on an estranged husband and wife. However, the difficulties... | |
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