 Green be the turf above thee, 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 the cold turf steep. When hearts...  Southern Literary Messenger - Page 3361835Full view - About this book
 | 1821 - 502 pages
...thou art lying, Will tears thy cold turf steep. When hearts, whose home was Heaven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath' be woven To...mine, Who shared thy joy and sorrow, Whose weal and wo were thine; It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow : But I've in vain essayed it, And... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - Alnwick Castle - 1827 - 76 pages
...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, 30 ON THE DEATH OF J. RODMAN DRAKE, And I, who woke each morrow To clasp thy hand in mine, Who shared... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 742 pages
...thee, None nam'd thee but to praise." ****** '' When hearts whose home was heaven. Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven, To tell the world their worth." ****** '- It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow, But I've in vain essayed it, And feel... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - Literary Criticism - 1835 - 226 pages
...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...But I've in vain essayed it, And feel I cannot now. ON THE DEATH OF J. RODMAN DRAKE. 39 While memory bids me weep thee, Nor thoughts nor words are free,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - Alnwick Castle - 1836 - 112 pages
...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...should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow, While memory bids me weep thee, Nor thoughts nor words are free, The grief is fixed too deeply That... | |
 | Alnwick Castle, Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1836 - 114 pages
...lying, Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearts, whose truth was proven, Like thine, are laid hi earth, There should a wreath be woven To tell the...should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow, While memory bids me weep thee, Nor thoughts nor words are free, The grief is fixed too deeply That... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 522 pages
...tears the cold turf steep. " When hearts, whose truth was proven Like thine, are laid in earth, Then should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth....mine, Who shared thy joy and sorrow, Whose weal and wo were thine; " It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow, But I 've in vain essayed it,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 530 pages
...I, who woke each morrow To clasp thy hand in mine, Who shared thy joy and sorrow, Whose weal and wo were thine; " It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow, But I 've in vain essayed it, And feel I cannot now. " While memory bids me weep thee, * Nor thoughts nor... | |
 | American poetry - 1839 - 430 pages
...When hearts, whose truth was proven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woveu To tell the world their worth. And I, who woke each...mine, Who shared thy joy and sorrow, Whose weal and wo were thine,— It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow ; But I've in vain essayed it,... | |
 | American ballads and songs - 1841 - 376 pages
...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...mine, Who shared thy joy and sorrow, Whose weal and wo were thine; It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow, But I've in vain essayed it, And... | |
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