 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 頁
...the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die. On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake. Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ;...thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. Such graves as his are pilgrim-shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined, — The Delphian vales,... | |
 | 1856 - 416 頁
...Peace to his memory. Those who knew Wilford in days long gone by may say with the poet:— " Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days; None knew thee but to love thee, None named thee but to praise!" The accomplished soldier has left behind a name revered by many, who,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 808 頁
...thee but to praise. Tears fell, when thon wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, And long where tliou art lying, Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearts, whose truth was proven, Like thine, are l:iid in earlh, There should 11 wreath be woven To tell the world their worth.And I, who woke ench... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 838 頁
...thee but to praise. Tears fell, when thou wert Jying, From eyes unused to weep, And long where tlioti art lying, Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearts, whose truth was pvovo:i, Like thine, are Inid in earth, There should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth;... | |
 | John H. Mills - 1857 - 282 頁
...his kindred, and of those who were workers together 'with him in the vineyard of the Lord. " Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days, None knew thee but to love thee — None named thee but to praise." REV. NICHOLAS WHITE. MR. SENEY was succeeded by the Rev. Nicholas... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1857 - 628 頁
...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 theo but to love thee, NOT named thee but to praise. although beautiful, bears too close a resemblance... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 374 頁
...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 tbee but to love thee, None named thee but to praise. Tears fell, when thou wert dying, From eyes unused... | |
 | 1857 - 470 頁
...blissful regions where " the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest." " Green be the tnrf above thee, Friend of my better days ; None knew thee but to IOVB thee, Nor named thee but to praise !" VIII. CITY REPORTS OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. WE propose, hereafter,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 644 頁
...lirst, Ami lliev, whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Hiirn to the socket." — WofUMWOBTH. GKEEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days!...fell, when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, When hearts, whose truth was proven. Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven... | |
 | Henry Simpson - 1859 - 1186 頁
...1849, he quietly breathed his last at the residence of his friend, Charles Walton, at Willow Grove. " When hearts, whose truth was proven, Like thine, are...laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven, To show the world their worth." The simple stone, at the Woodlands Cemetery, tells that Thomas Earle reposes... | |
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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. 
