 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 Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge - Page 44by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...Roland de Vaux of Tryennainc ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison % L4a' kLx niadiiesn in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine. With Kolnnd nnd Sir Leoline. Each spake words... | |
 | Francis Edward Paget - 1841 - 276 pages
...he grew angry, and called her firmness obstinacy, and her calmness want of feeling. And then (for " To be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain,") he left her with words of unkindness and reproaches, which, unjust as they were, were nevertheless... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 564 pages
...musical lines of Christabel : , Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth . And constancy lives in realms above ; And...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... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 988 pages
...musical lines of Christabel : Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And...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... | |
 | lady Henrietta Georgiana M. Chatterton - 1841 - 438 pages
...Foscari, the signora's cavaliere, and signor Allegri, and signor Rodrigo Manfredi." CHAPTER III. " And life is thorny, and youth is vain ; And to be...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... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 pages
...DISSOLUTION OF FRIENDSHIP. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth: But whispering tongues can poison truth j And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny;...and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain Bnt never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining; They stood aloof^ the scars remaining,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pages
...ocean. FARE THEE WELL. " Alas ! they had been friends in Youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above : And Life...with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain : * ****** But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...broken friendships : — Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison town and tower, to down and dale, To tell red Flodden's...shivered was fair Scotland's spear, And broken wa diviue, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best... | |
 | 1857 - 602 pages
...constrained. But he was too much hurt to examine how far he was himself to blame ; for, as Coleridge says : " To be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain ;" so he dashed on, regardless of every thing but his own bitter thoughts. Had he been less engrossed,... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pages
...— an intrusion of a dramatic expression into a reflection on life. When the poet tells us that " to be wroth with one we love doth work like madness in the brain," he puts into words which every child can understand an emotion which all human beings, as they look... | |
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