 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 5041817Full view - About this book
 | Henry Frith - 1893 - 312 pages
...declaration was made, and a most valuable plunder, including 122,000 pieces of gold, rewarded the captors. "Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love," sang the poet, and though, perhaps, the plunder and its partition were no "light matters," the division... | |
 | 1893
...is every heart's employ ? Where does the loved Sultana hide her brow, In melancholy stillness now ? Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! A something light as air, a look, A word unkind or wrongly taken — O love that tempests never shook,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 332 pages
...As you too shall adore, I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more." i And yet " 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... | |
 | G. Steel - 1894 - 300 pages
...now our fates from unmomentous things May rise like riven out of little springs. — Campbell. (3) Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! — Tom Moore. (4) Are not both gainers when the heart's distress Is so divided that the pain, is... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1895 - 800 pages
...mirth 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 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... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1895 - 332 pages
...As you too shall adore, I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more." 1 And yet " Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love 1 Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied, 1 Lovelace. That stood... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 772 pages
...alone. MOORE. For time will come, with all its blights, The ruin'd hope — the friend unkind. 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, Yet in a... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1896 - 463 pages
...poet that sum up so beautifully all he has been saying that he may be pardoned for closing with them. "Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ; Hearts that the world has vainly tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1896
...sum up so beautifully all he has been saying that he may be pardoned for closing with them. " Alas I how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love; Hearts that the world has vainly tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet... | |
 | 1896 - 1178 pages
...affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain. d. JEAN INOELOW — Poems. Strife and Peace. Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark s I Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm... | |
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