 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
 | Anne Judith Penny - 1858
...may move Dissension hetween hearts that love. HearU that the world in vain has tried, And sorrow hut more closely tied ; That stood the storm when waves...fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea When hearen was all tranquillity. A something light as air, a look — A word unkind or roughly taken —... | |
 | Vernon hall - 1858 - 394 pages
...; though little did I imagine that they could ever be really applicable to myself and Arthur :— " 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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1858 - 336 pages
...They'll weep for the Maiden who sleeps in this wave. LOVERS' QUARRELS. LAS ! — how light a eause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more elosely tied ; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 255 pages
...feelings of animosity, than the relative claims to popular estimation of Messrs. Spivy and Spokey. "Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! " The more frequently the topic was reverted to, the more bitter became the controversy. The crutches... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1859
...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... | |
 | 1860
...which every human heart knows to be true, in the plaintive strains of Moore, the Bard of Erin: — '• 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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1861
...lov'd Sultana? where, When mirth brings out the young and fair, Does she, the fairest, hide her brow, 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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1861 - 747 pages
...brings out the young and fair, Does she, the fairest, hide her brow, In melancholy stillness now 7 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... | |
 | E M. P - 1861
...trust herself again on the lake in company with Hero, or without experienced boatmen. K^ CHAPTER VII. " Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ; A word unkind or wrongly taken, A breath, a touch like this hath shaken. And hearts so lately mingled... | |
 | English poets - 1862
...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...off, Like ships, that have gone down at sea, When Heaven was all tranquillity! A something light as air — a look, A word unkind or wrongly taken —... | |
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