 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. And I, who woke each morrow To clasp...  American Quarterly Review - Page 108edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
 | 1821 - 502 pages
...tears thy cold turf steep. When hearts, whose home was Heaven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath' be woven To tell the world their...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 words... | |
 | 1821 - 504 pages
...tears thy cold turf steep. When hearts, whose home was Heaven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth...shared thy joy and sorrow, Whose weal and wo were thine j It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow : But I've in vain essayed it, And feel, I cannot... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - Alnwick Castle - 1827 - 76 pages
...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 thy joy and sorrow, Whose weal and woe were thine ; It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow, But I've in vain essayed it,... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 742 pages
...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 I cannot now." In the memoir of the author prefixed to the "Remains,"... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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;...and sorrow, Whose weal and wo were thine; It should he mine to braid it Around thy faded brow, But I've in vain essayed it, And feel I cannot now. While... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...tears the cold turf steep. When hearts whose truth was proven, Like thine arc laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth....mine, Who shared thy joy and sorrow, Whose weal and woe were thine — It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow, But I've in vain essayed it,... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - Literary Criticism - 1835 - 226 pages
...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,...mine, Who shared thy joy and sorrow, Whose weal and woe were thine ; It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow, But I've in vain essayed it,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - Alnwick Castle - 1836 - 112 pages
...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,...mine, Who shared thy joy and sorrow, Whose weal and woe were thine; It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow, While memory bids me weep thee,... | |
 | 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...should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow ; But I've in vain essayed it, And feel I cannot now. Nor thoughts nor words are free, The grief is fixed... | |
 | American ballads and songs - 1841 - 376 pages
...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,...should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow, But I've in vain essayed it, And feel 1 cannot now. While memory bids me weep thee, Nor thoughts nor words... | |
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