 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - American poetry - 1869 - 434 pages
...summer dust, Burn to the socket." WORDSWORTH. flREEN 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... | |
 | George Alsop - Maryland - 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... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...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... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - Baptists - 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... | |
 | Mary Alice Seymour - Musicians - 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... | |
 | Iowa. General Assembly. Senate - Iowa - 1870 - 702 pages
...the words of a favorite American poet : " Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days : None knew 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...DRAKE. [Died in New York, September, 1830.] GREEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! iss." The maiden laughed out in her innocent glee, — " What Tears fell, when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, And long, where thou art lying, Will tears... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - American literature - 1872 - 376 pages
...following tender elegy from our poet's pen : 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 d3ring, From eyes unused to weep, And long where thou art lying Will tears... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 184 pages
...HERRICK OX THE DEATH OF THE POET DRAKE. GREEN be the turf above tliee, Friend of my better clays ! 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... | |
 | Charles M. Keyes - Ohio - 1874 - 208 pages
...true friend — well may be said of him : "Green be the turf above thee, friend of my tetter days, None knew thee but to love thee, nor named thee but to praise-" Many more events and episodes of deepest interest to as might be narrated, did space permit. Of the... | |
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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. 
