 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 642
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 252
...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...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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...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... | |
 | 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 700
...the truth of his humanity ; and the epigrammatic terseness of his smaller compositions. Such us — Green be the turf above thee Friend of my better days ' None knew thee but to love thee, None named thee but to praise — An elegy of which it can be truly said, as of how few persons through... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...1795. He is author of the beautiful lines in memory of his friend Dr. Drake, the poet, beginning with " Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ; None knew thee but to love thee, None named thee but to praise." " Fanny," " Alnwick Castle," " Marco Bozzaris," are the best known... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 816
...more fitly to my own feelings, than in the words I venture to quote: "Green be the turf above th«e, Friend of my better days ; None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise." Judge HEXRY B. BROWN, of Detroit, next addressed the Court in words and manner that made a deep impression.... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 696
...tho truth of hie humanity ; and the epigrammatic terseness of his smaller compositions. Such as — Green be the turf above thee Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, None named thee but to praise — An elegy of which it can be truly said, as of how few persons through... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 610
...Something better than "Wyoming." and poems of that description, is the poem on the death of 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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 584
...Something better than "Wyoming." and poems of that description, is the poem on the death of Drake : — "Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thec but to love thec, None named thee but to praise. " Tears fell when thou wert dying, From eyes... | |
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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... 
