Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongue… - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" "
Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) was an English poet, critic and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: S. T. Coleridge

All quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge Similar Quotes by other Originators

Shorter versions of this quote

Alas; they had been friends in youth
but whispering tongues can poison truth

Originators like Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

William Wordsworth Lord Byron John Keats Percy Bysshe Shelley Alfred Tennyson

Additional quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Clothing the palpable and the familiar
With golden exhalations of the dawn.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in your hand
Ah, what then?

Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is … - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Also Known As

Advanced Search Filters

Shorter versions of this quote

Additional quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Advanced Search Filters