 Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. Tears fell, when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, And long where thou art lying Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearts,...  American Quarterly Review - 114 psl.redagavo - 1836Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | 1821 - 502 psl.
...amiable, the intelligent and the virtuous. Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! i None knew thee, but to love thee, Nor named thee,...weep ; And long, where thou art lying, Will tears thy cold turf steep. When hearts, whose home was Heaven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There should... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1825 - 328 psl.
...swinging in the wind, until chance directed the footsteps of some straggler to the place. 257 CHAPTER X. " Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better...thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise." HaUtck. WHILE the scenes and events that we have recorded were occurring, Captain Lawton led his small... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1827 - 76 psl.
...triumph-hours, save on the battle day ? ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE, OP NEW-YORK, SEPT. 1820. GREEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better...whose truth was proven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth, 30 ON THE DEATH OF J. RODMAN DRAKE, And... | |
 | 1828 - 502 psl.
...father's neck, and he expired. Thus died he, of whom I may say with truth, as I do with tears, " Gieen be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ; None knew thee but to love thee, Or named thee but to praise." WILTON. MEMORANDA OF TRAVELS IN TURKEY. We insert the following extract... | |
 | 1829 - 742 psl.
...poet, haunting our memory, and rising unconsciously to our lips : — " Green be the turf above thcc, Friend of my better days; None knew thee but to love thee, None nam'd thee but to praise." ****** '' When hearts whose home was heaven. Like thine, are laid in... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 psl.
...urns? Wear they not graven on the heart The name of Robert Burns ? ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAX DRAKE. GREEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better...whose truth was proven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth; And I, who woke each morrow To clasp... | |
 | 1835 - 842 psl.
...tender sentiment and simplicity. This poem consists merely of six quatrains, and we quote them in full. Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, ]NTor named thee but to praise. Tears fell when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, And long,... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - 1835 - 226 psl.
...The good die first, And they, whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket." WORDSWORTH. GREEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better...thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. 38 ON THE DEATH OF J. RODMAN DRAKE. Tears fell, when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, And... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1836 - 112 psl.
...summer dust, Burn to the socket." GREEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! WORDSWORTH. None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but...whose truth was proven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth, And I, who woke each morrow To clasp... | |
 | Alnwick Castle, Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1836 - 114 psl.
...summer dust, Burn to the socket. 11 GREEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! WoRDsWORTH. Tears fell, when thou wert dying, From eyes unused...hearts, whose truth was proven, Like thine, are laid hi earth, There should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth, And I, who woke each morrow... | |
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