 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1825 - 328 pagina’s
...swinging in 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...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 pagina’s
...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...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, And I, who... | |
 | 1828 - 502 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1831 - 424 pagina’s
...step again, Nor knew the fearful death he died On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake. — FG HALI.ECK GREEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better...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... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1831 - 436 pagina’s
...some straggler to the place. CHAPTER XXXIV. Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better d.tys; None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise." Halleck. WHILE the scenes and events that we have recorded were occurring, Captain Lawton led his small... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1832 - 410 pagina’s
...again, Nor knew the fearful death he died On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake. — FG HALLECK GREE.V be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days !...to weep, And long, where thou art lying, Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearfs, whose truth was proven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There should... | |
 | Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - 1832 - 546 pagina’s
...elsewhere. LINES ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND. Green be the turf Jiovc thee, Friend of my better dayi I ft one knew thee but to love thee. Nor named thee but to praise. Tears fell when thou wert dying, From eyes nnused to weep, And long, where thou art lying, V, 1 1! tears the cold turf steep. When hearts, whose... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pagina’s
...tender 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 pagina’s
...The 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...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... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 530 pagina’s
...written in 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...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 should... | |
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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. 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,... 
