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 - Página 3361835Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1821 - 502 páginas
...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 - 1827 - 76 páginas
...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... | |
| 1829 - 742 páginas
...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 - 1835 - 226 páginas
...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 - 1836 - 112 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 1836 - 522 páginas
...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 - 1836 - 530 páginas
...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... | |
| 1839 - 430 páginas
...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,... | |
| 1841 - 376 páginas
...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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