| 1821 - 502 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| 1828 - 502 pages
...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... | |
| 1835 - 842 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1836 - 530 pages
...written in September, 1820, after the death of Joseph Rodman Drake, the intimate friend of our author. " Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better...whose truth was proven Like thine, are laid in earth, Then 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 pages
...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... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1836 - 522 pages
...him the touching language with which an admired poet has hallowed the memory of a brother bard:— " Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better...but to love thee, Nor named thee, but to praise." And were it oniy for the peculiar species of fame which Lamb's contributions to the light literature... | |
| 1836 - 802 pages
...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, Nor named tliee but to praise. Tears fell when tliou wert dying, From eyes unused to \\eep, And long, where ihou... | |
| 1839 - 430 pages
...death he died So long they looked—but never spied On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake.—FG HALLECK. GREEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better...thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woveu To tell the world their worth. And I, who woke each morrow To clasp thy hand in mine, Who shared... | |
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