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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... "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 506
1817
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets: Based Upon Bohn ...

Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 pages
...heart can doubt, Of tents with love or thrones without. 2971 Moore: Lalla Rookh. Light of the Harem 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...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets

Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...DISSENSIONS. Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts, That no dissension hinder government. Alas ? how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love I Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm,...
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The Expositor's Dictionary of Poetical Quotations

James Moffatt - 1913 - 252 pages
...ACTS xv. 29. And there arose a sharp contention, so that they parted asunder one from the other. " 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 winds were rough, Yet in a...
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The Handbook of Quotations

1913 - 264 pages
...strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together. Addison: Cato. 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...
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A Brief Extract of a New English Prosody Based Upon the Laws of English Rhythm

Mark Harvey Liddell - 1914 - 54 pages
...without spot cEbF aEbCbF Shelley, Adonals. An equal amongst mightiest energies Wordsworth, Excursion. Alas, how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love bEaDcEaF Moore, The Light of the Harem. Come, blessed barrier between day and day Wordsworth, Sonnet...
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The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me

William Allen White - 1918 - 360 pages
...came to Henry and me our first estrangement. It is curious, as the poet sings, " how light a thing may move dissension between hearts that love — hearts...vain has tried and sorrow but more closely tied." Well — the thing that came between us was cooking — cooking that has parted more soul mates than...
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The Naturalist in a Boarding School

William A. Murrill - 1919 - 300 pages
...nightingale's high note is heard; It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whispered word. Byron 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...
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Nerves and the Man: A Popular Psychological and Constructive Study of ...

William Charles Loosmore - 1920 - 246 pages
...thought, and our irritable moods are often exceedingly thoughtless. As Moore touchingly puts it — " 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...
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...affront will stir the heart. Through years of rankling pain. JEAN INGELOW — Poems. Strife and Peace. 13 e God of Love. See Genuine Works. (1732) I. 129. Version of a Greek couplet from the Greek Antholog had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny...
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The Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 1

William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 408 pages
...earlier youth. JULIA c. R. DORR. ALAS : HOW LIGHT A CAUSE MAY MOVE. PROM "THE LIGHT OF THE HAREM." ALAS ! how light a cause may move Dissension between...sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm whep waves were rough, Vet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven...
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