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
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...friend. H:\NM IN (ABRIDGED). CLXYIII. — MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 1. ON THE DEATH OF A FRUND. — Halleck. 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,... | |
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 490 pages
...MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 1. ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEXD. — Ilalleck. And T, who woke each morrow to clasp '.Sly hand in mine, Who shared thy joy and sorrow, whose weal and woo were thine, It should he mine to braid it around thy faded brow, But I 've in vain essayed it,... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...weep, " The good die first, 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, I5ut I've in vain essayed it,... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...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, Hut I've in vain essayed it, And feel I cannot now. While memory bids me weep thee, Nor thoughts nor... | |
| HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...proven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven, To tell the world their wortiu And I, who woke each morrow To clasp thy hand in mine,...should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow, But I J ve in vain essayed it, And feel I cannot now. While memory bids me weep thee, Nor thoughts nor... | |
| Epes Sargent - Readers - 1859 - 450 pages
...MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 1. ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND. — Halleck. And I, who woke each morrow to clasp Ihy 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,... | |
| Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 844 pages
...tears the cold tnrf steep. When hearts, whose trnth was proven, Like ihine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven, To tell the world their worth. And I, who woke each morrow To clasp thy baud in mine, Who shared thy joy and sorrow, Whose weal and wo were thine; It shonld be mine to braid... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 pages
...proven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be WOVCTI To tell the world their wortli • And I, who woke each morrow To clasp thy hand in mine, Who chared tliy joy nnd sorrow, Whose weal nnd woe were thine: It should be mine to braid it Around thy... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...I, who woke each mosrow to clasp thyliand 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, and feel I cannot now. While memory bids me weep thee, nor thoughts nor words... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1868 - 822 pages
...tears the cold turl' steep. When hearts, whose truth was provea, 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 urine; It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow, But I've in vain essayed it, And... | |
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