 | 1864 - 576 páginas
...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...when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off. " I can look back upon that day now, when my life's romance ended so roughly, and I can look back almost... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 páginas
...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 hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain has tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a... | |
 | Frances M. Wilbraham - 1862 - 510 páginas
...seen flitting All Souls' day round his mother's grave. Thus perished Rosamond's visions of delight, ' like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.' She, to borrow the phrase of an old chronicler, 'took it patiently, and said little;' she only prayed,... | |
 | Clarisse (pseud.) - 1862 - 304 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Edward John Hardy - 1887 - 300 páginas
...and more nervous and combative, as the animal instinct of self-will grows stronger and stronger. " Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love," when the noble quality of firmness is in this way misapplied. We might mention innumerable instances... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1889 - 296 páginas
...As you too shall adore, I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more." * And yet " Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between...when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, 1 Lovelace. Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity." l For love is... | |
 | 1889 - 934 páginas
...with brother spake; no word When they met in the way. fc. JEAN INGELOW— Poeml. Strife awl Peace. Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between...Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but moro closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Tet in a sunny hour fall od. /. MOOBE—... | |
 | Amelia E. Barr - 1889 - 320 páginas
...and a true affection without some lingering looks backward. CHAPTER II. THE BEGINNING OF STRIFE. " Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love." "O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1890 - 426 páginas
...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...gone down at sea, When Heaven was all tranquillity ! * The capital of Shadukuim. See note, p. 198. A something, light as air — a look, A word unkind... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - 514 páginas
...As you too shall adore, I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more." l And yet " Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between...when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, 1 Lovelace. Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity." l For love is... | |
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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... 
