 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...dust, Hiirn to the socket." — WofUMWOBTH. GKEEN 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, When hearts, whose truth was proven. Like... | |
 | 1860 - 56 pages
...in the touching language of the poet, •' Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days I None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to each afflicted relative of our late friend, and... | |
 | Charles William Everest - American literature - 1860 - 484 pages
...summer dust, Bum to the socket." WORDSWORTH. 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... | |
 | 1862 - 348 pages
...sorrow ; from the heart we unite with him : " Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise." A similar strain of mournfulness casts its shadow over his " Alnwick Castle," that " Home of the Percy's... | |
 | Holton Library, Brighton, Mass - 1865 - 280 pages
...teachers and guides of their race : — " Green be the turf above thee, — Friend of my better days ; None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise." We have thus briefly mentioned nearly two hundred volumes from among the whole collection added during... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...immortal names, That were not born to die. Ibid. Green be the 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 Drake. * Cf. ROGERS. Jacqueline. Such graves as his are pilgrim-shrines,... | |
 | Congregationalist and Herald of Gospel Liberty - Congregationalism - 1867 - 542 pages
...absorbed the love 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...1. ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND. — Halleck. GKEEN 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... | |
 | Epitaphs - 1869 - 216 pages
...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.... | |
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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. 
