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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. "
The Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: The siege of Corinth. Parisina ... - Page 144
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817
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The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...whispering tongues can poison truth , And constancy lives in realms above, And life is thorny ; and youth l my heart leap'd up, For still 1 hoped lo see the strange niadiiesn in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine. With Kolnnd nnd Sir Leoline. Each spake words...
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Home sketches and foreign recollections, Volume 3

lady Henrietta Georgiana M. Chatterton - 1841 - 438 pages
...cavaliere, and signor Allegri, and signor Rodrigo Manfredi." CHAPTER III. " And life is thorny, and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain." COLERIDGE. WEEKS, months passed away, and the day was fixed for Theresa's marriage with Prince Carlo...
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Rambles and Reveries

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 564 pages
...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. "No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher." True as...
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Rambles and Reveries

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 988 pages
...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. " No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher." True as...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 18

1841 - 832 pages
...can poison truth ; And pon-itancy lire« in realms above ; Anil life is thorny ; »nd youth is vaui ; 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...
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The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pages
...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...heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaming, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat,...
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Readings in poetry: a selection from the best English poets, from Spenser to ...

Readings - 1843 - 466 pages
...And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain Bnt never either found another To free the hollow heart...remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder: And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted—ne'er to meet again! A dreary sea now flows between....
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and \outh s blessing, Kind its caressing ; But now 'tis fled — fled far away. I've seen And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Lcoline. Each spake words of high disdain And...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth e the universal wail. Tradition, legend, tune, * Where shivered was fair Scotl And thus it chanced, as I diviue, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And...
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The Living Age, Volume 205

1895 - 844 pages
...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. Each spoke words of high disdain And...
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