 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - Страниц: 540
...FRANKLIN (ABRIDGED). CLXVm. — MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 1. ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND. — Halleck. GKEEN 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 hearts whose truth is proven, like thine, are laid in earth, There should... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1873 - Страниц: 720
...facts and figures quoted on the present occasion. A PRESENTIMENT. BY THE REV. JAMES HILL, DD " GBEEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ; None knew thee but to love thee, None named thee but to praise." My sister, did I hear thee say That when our brother strayed With thee,... | |
 | Congregationalist and Herald of Gospel Liberty - 1867 - Страниц: 542
...of all hearts, that, with scarce a solitary exception, the lines of Halleck were true of him : — " None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise." He is gone, — gone by the hand of a Northern traitor, — a viper warmed into life by his own lenient... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1868 - Страниц: 822
...the turf above lliee, Friend of my better days ! None knew tliee but to love thee, None named tliee but to praise. Tears fell, when thou wert dying, From...weep ; And long, where thou art lying, Will tears the cold turl' steep. When hearts, whose truth was provea, Like thine, are laid in earth, There should... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - 1868 - Страниц: 658
...his early friend ; the opening words of which are so familiar, and will suggest to all the rest : " Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, NOT named thee but to praise." In behalf of the court, Mr. Justice DILLON (acting chief justice), in... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1869 - Страниц: 434
...good die first, And they, whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket." WORDSWORTH. flREEN 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 hearts, whose truth was proven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There should... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - Страниц: 474
...yet to be. ibid. One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die. iind. Green be tbe turf above thee, Friend of my better days ; None knew...thee but to love thee,* Nor named thee but to praise. On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drahe. Such graves as his are pilgrim-shrines, Shrines to no code or... | |
 | John T. Watson - 1869 - Страниц: 524
...now, and Fame's ; One of the few, th' immortal names, That were not born to die ! FITZ-GREEN HALLECK. 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. She liv'd as lives a peaceful dove, She died as blossoms... | |
 | Epitaphs - 1869 - Страниц: 216
...them evidence you are a Christian. By the fruit is the tree known. 1 KEEN be the turf above thee, b Friend of my better days ; None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. " HEN the ear heard him, then it blessed him; and when the eye saw him, then it gave witness to him.... | |
 | George Alsop - 1869 - Страниц: 194
...applicable to him as it was to that gifted poet. Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days 1 None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. Poor nnfortnnate Mac Donald Clarke was an ardent admirer of Halleck. He said he would give more for... | |
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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... 
