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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. "
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Page 82
1844
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An Address to the Literary Members of the University

John Bickerton - Farrago - 1816 - 70 pages
...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. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And...
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Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision ; The Pains of Sleep

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1816 - 82 pages
...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. And thus it charic'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And...
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The Augustan review, Volume 3

1816 - 676 pages
...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. And thus itchanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain, And...
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The Literary Panorama and National Register

English literature - 1816 - 592 pages
...poison truth ; And constancy lives in realm! abore , And life i« 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 Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain, And...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: The siege of Corinth. Parisina ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1817 - 212 pages
...poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above: And Dfe is thorny ; andyouth is vain : And to be wroth 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, the...
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Spirit of the English Magazines

1824 - 984 pages
...truth ¡ Ала 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 : They parted ne'er to meet again,— But never either found another To free the hollow heart from...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...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: And thus it chanc'd as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And...
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British melodies, extracts from the modern poets [signed J.H.R.].

British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...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. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And...
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Lord Byron's Works ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...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: But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 184

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1896 - 616 pages
...natural friends, the sting of which was felt by Coleridge when he wrote the immortal lines : ' And to bo wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.' Hence his noble forgiveness of Quintus and his wretched son. Hence even his complaisance towards Dolabelia,...
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