 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...FRANKLIN (ABRIDGED). CLXVm. — MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 1. ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND. — Halleck. GKEEN be the turf above thee, friend of my better days !...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... | |
 | Congregationalist and Herald of Gospel Liberty - 1867 - 542 pages
...of all hearts, that, with scarce a solitary exception, the lines of Halleck were true of him : — " None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise." He is gone, — gone by the hand of a Northern traitor, — a viper warmed into life by his own lenient... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1869 - 434 pages
...good die first, And they, whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket." WORDSWORTH. flREEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days !...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... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...yet to be. ibid. One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die. iind. Green be tbe turf above thee, Friend of my better days ; None knew...thee but to love thee,* Nor named thee but to praise. On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drahe. Such graves as his are pilgrim-shrines, Shrines to no code or... | |
 | Epitaphs - 1869 - 216 pages
...them evidence you are a Christian. By the fruit is the tree known. 1 KEEN be the turf above thee, b Friend of my better days ; None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. " HEN the ear heard him, then it blessed him; and when the eye saw him, then it gave witness to him.... | |
 | George Alsop - 1869 - 194 pages
...applicable to him as it was to that gifted poet. Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days 1 None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. Poor nnfortnnate Mac Donald Clarke was an ardent admirer of Halleck. He said he would give more for... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - 1859 - 890 pages
...Union Cemetery of Philadelphia : — <; Light be the turf above thee, " Friend of my early days; " Noue knew thee but to love thee, " Nor named thee but to praise." It is not easy to present in detail the elements of Mr. Lybrand's intellectual power. Animated by a... | |
 | Iowa. General Assembly. Senate - 1870 - 702 pages
...friend true. Now that he has left us, we feel like repeating the words of a favorite American poet : " Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better...thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise." The late Senator from Des Moines, it was not my fortune to have met until on this floor at the opening... | |
 | Mary Alice Seymour - 1870 - 224 pages
...bonheur d'autrui.' " 44 1 had better remember that 4 Lea plus sage ne U tontpas toujours. 9 " AGITATO. "None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise I " " When hearts whose truth was proven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven... | |
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Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. 
