 | 1821 - 502 pages
...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, but to praise. Tears fell, when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep ; And long, where thou art lying, Will tears... | |
 | 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
...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 to praise. Tears fell, when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, And long, where thou art lying, Will tears... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - Literary Criticism - 1835 - 226 pages
...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 to praise. " Tears fell, when thou" wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, And long, where thou art lying, Will... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1840 - 532 pages
...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... | |
 | American ballads and songs - 1841 - 376 pages
...TURF ABOVE THEE. BY FITZ-GREENE 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. Tears fell, when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, And long, where thou art lying, Will tears... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Italy - 1841 - 564 pages
...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 only for the peculiar species of fame which Lamb's contributions to the light literature... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - American literature - 1841 - 988 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 only for the peculiar species of fame which Lamb's contributions to the light literature... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...the lines to his memory, beginning — "Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better diys ; None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise." Near the close of the year 1819, HALLECH published "Fanny," his longest poem, which has since passed... | |
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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. 
