 | Thomas Moore - 1858 - 364 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 sunny hour fall off. 38 Like ships... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 272 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 - 1866 - 580 pages
...word signifies women and flowers. 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 has tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a... | |
 | One of themselves (pseud.) - 1859 - 484 pages
...found of the Christian spirit." " They stood the storm when seas were rough, But in the sunny time fell off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity." Let it not be supposed that the ministrations of the young pastor were confined to his pulpit, or limited... | |
 | Anson Jones - 1859 - 672 pages
...sudden and too great prosperity, which they have not the wisdom or the ability to bear successfully. " Like ships that have gone down at sea, When Heaven was all tranquillity. Something akin to these things are now producing their fearful effects in these United States, —... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1860 - 594 pages
...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...storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour full off. Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity ! A something light... | |
 | John Bartholomew Gough - 1860 - 210 pages
...downfall. I was like some bark,— " Which stood the storm when winds were rough, But in a sunny hour fell off ; Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity." My accursed appetite, too, which I deemed eradicated, I found had only slept ; the single glass I had... | |
 | E M. P - 1861 - 314 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 pages
...spring-lock, that lay in ambush there, Fasten'd her down for everl ROGERS. 128. INSTABILITY OF AFFECTION. ALAS ! — how light a cause may move Dissension between...off, — Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heav'n was all tranquillity ! A something light as air — a look, A word unkind or wrongly taken —... | |
 | Charlotte Maria Tucker - 1862 - 242 pages
...such as this." CHAPTEK III. BITTER WORDS. " Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between those that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried,...gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity 1 A something light as air, — a look, A word unkind or wrongly taken,— Oh, love that tempests never... | |
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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... 
