 Tears fell, when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, And long where thou art lying Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearts, whose truth was proven Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven, To tell the world their worth...  Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z - Page 6868redigeeritud poolt - 1897Full view - About this book
 | 1821 - 504 lehte
...peculiarly to select for the objects of its attack, the amiable, the intelligent and the virtuous. ' Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days !...unused to 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... | |
 | 1821 - 502 lehte
...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,...unused to 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... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1825 - 328 lehte
...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 days—...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 - 1827 - 76 lehte
...triumph-hours, save on the battle day ? ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE, OP NEW-YORK, SEPT. 1820. GREEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days !...unused to weep, And long, where thou art lying, Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearts, whose truth was proven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There... | |
 | 1828 - 502 lehte
...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... | |
 | 1829 - 742 lehte
...poet, haunting our memory, and rising unconsciously to our lips : — " Green be the turf above thcc, Friend of my better days; None knew thee but to love thee, None nam'd thee but to praise." ****** '' When hearts whose home was heaven. Like thine, are laid in... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 lehte
...they not graven on the heart The name of Robert Burns ? ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAX DRAKE. GREEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days!...unused to weep. And long where thou art lying, Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearts, whose truth was proven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There... | |
 | 1835 - 842 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 days !...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 lehte
...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 days!...unused to weep, And long, where thou art lying, Will tears the cold turf steep. " When hearts, whose truth was proven Like thine, are laid in earth, Then... | |
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