 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1825 - 328 pages
...straggler to the place. 257 CHAPTER X. " Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days— None knew 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 - Alnwick Castle - 1827 - 76 pages
...JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE, OP NEW-YORK, SEPT. 1820. GREEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but...should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth, 30 ON THE DEATH OF J. RODMAN DRAKE, And I, who woke each morrow To clasp thy hand in mine, Who shared... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 742 pages
...thee but to love thee, None nam'd thee but to praise." ****** '' When hearts whose home was heaven. Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven, To tell the world their worth." ****** '- It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow, But I've in vain essayed it, And feel... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...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...steep. When hearts whose truth was proven, Like thine arc laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth. And I, who woke each... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - Literary Criticism - 1835 - 226 pages
...summer dust, Burn 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. 38 ON THE DEATH OF J. RODMAN DRAKE. Tears fell, when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, And... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 530 pages
...Drake, the intimate friend of our author. " Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but...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 - Serial publications - 1836 - 522 pages
...hallowed the memory of a brother bard:— " Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days, None knew thee^ 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1839 - 430 pages
...Death of Joseph Rodman Drake.—FG HALLECK. GREEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but...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... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1840 - 532 pages
...Russell we may say, in the lines of Halleck, " Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ; None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise." Although our article ought strictly to be confined to racing, we cannot refrain from laying before... | |
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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. 
