 Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.  Annual Report - Stran 137avtor: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society - 1916Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1847 - 308 strani
..."The good die first, And they, whose hearts arc dry as summer dust. Burn to the socket." WORDSWORTH. GREEN be the turf above thee. Friend of my better...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... | |
 | 1847 - 540 strani
...and Fame's ; One of the few, th' immortal names, That were not born to die ! FITZ-OREEN HALLECK. 13. Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days; None knew thee but to love thee, Nor nam'd thee but to praise. FITZ-GREEN HALLECK. 14. She liv'd as lives a peaceful dove, She died as blossoms... | |
 | 1847 - 486 strani
...stood there, of Halleek's beautiful lines upon one more widely known, but not more tenderly loved : " Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ; None knew thee but to love thee, None named thee but to praise." Reader, the above is no fancy sketch ; those who can turn their thoughts... | |
 | Robert Bolton - 1848 - 618 strani
...inappropriate here, especially as the last two of the first stanza are engraved upon this tombstone. Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better...thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. Tears fell when them wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, And long, where thou art lying, Will tears... | |
 | Robert Bolton - 1848 - 638 strani
...as the last two of the first stanza are engraved upon this tombstone. Green be the turf above tliee, 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 - 1849 - 296 strani
...the touching language with which an admired poet has hallowed the memory of a brother bard : — " Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better...but to love thee, Nor named thee, but to praise." And were it only for the peculiar species of fa mo which Lamb's contributions to the light literature... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850 - 642 strani
...sentiment will recommend it to all readers. It is, however, carelessly written, and the first quatrain, Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days — None knew thee but to love thee, N * n named thee but to praise. although beautiful, bears too close a resemblance to the stih more... | |
 | 1851 - 588 strani
...BRYAST, the lines to his memory, beginning — " Green be the turf above thee, FrienJ of my betler days ; None knew thee but to love thee. Nor named thee but to praise. Near the close of 1819, Hallcck published Fanny, his longest poem, which was written and printed in... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1851 - 252 strani
...The good die first, Aud they, whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket." WORDSWORTH. GREEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better...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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 strani
...the shore. Still better than these verses are the stanzas on the death of his brother poet Drake : Green be the turf above thee. Friend of my better days; None knew thee but to love thee, None named thee but to praise. Tears fell when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep ; And long... | |
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