| 1847 - 486 pages
...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 back through three years of... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...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 where thou art lying Will tears... | |
| George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe - American literature - 1852 - 696 pages
...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 all time, that there is not... | |
| James Robert Boyd - English language - 1852 - 364 pages
...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 of his productions. He is distinguished... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1852 - 610 pages
...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 where thou art lying, Will tears... | |
| 1852 - 700 pages
...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 all time, that there is not... | |
| 1852 - 882 pages
...the fifteenth year of her age ; and the fair hope of a bright future was buried in her early grave. " None knew thee but to love thee, None named thee but to praise thee." The following lines from the pen of the late Rev. Dr. Bethune, though not written for her, so... | |
| Free Public Library (New Bedford, Mass.) - 1853 - 700 pages
...into an institution of communal magnitude and interest. The senior of these has gone to his rest. " Green be the turf above thee. Friend of my early days ; None knew thee but to love thee, None named thcc but to praise." It would be difficult to recall to mind of those early among us, one more worthy... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...At midnight on the shore. 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 feil, when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to wecp; And long where thou art lying, Will tears... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...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 where thou art lying Will tears... | |
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