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
 | Selections - 1863 - 176 pages
...the dear spot ; I oft o'er his memory spend a fond tear — But such is the warrior's lot . Moore. ALAS ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world iu vain had tried , And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1884 - 415 pages
..." Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; Who stood the storms when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships which have gone down at sea When heaven was all serenity." ******* Soon after breakfast, Mary went... | |
 | Illustrated poems - 1885
...: None but prisoners like me Know the worth of liberty. — MONTGOMERY. INSTABILITY OF FRIENDSHIP. 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... | |
 | They - 1885 - 79 pages
...if entered on in a sore spirit, may furnish new grounds of difference. No question is too small. '' 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... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 560 pages
...menaced to remove — If there be Love in mortals — this was Love ! . — Di-yden. UnVir. — 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, i'et in... | |
 | John Ross MacDuff - 1885 - 151 pages
...how light a thing may move Dissensions between hearts that love ; Hearts that the world in vain hath tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm when seas were rough, But in a sunny hour fell off; Like ships that have gone down at sea \Vhen heaven was... | |
 | Nathan David Thompson - 1886 - 19 pages
...God was the price of the world. JOAQUÍN MILLEB. ALAS! HOW LIGHT A CAUSE MAY MOVE. AS! how light ÿ cause may move Dissension between hearts that love!...fall 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,... | |
 | 1886
...Smith, Elder * C» shared their lives, that which keeps them apart is knowledge, and not ignorance. " Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love," is not a reflection that throws much light on an estranged husband and wife. However, the difficulties... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1887 - 240 pages
...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...off; — Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity ! /TV A something, light as ait — a look, A -word . . . unkind, or wrongly... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1887 - 240 pages
...night, And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted. MUTABILITY OF LOVE. — 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,... | |
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