Albert Gorton Greene

Albert Gorton Greene

Albert Gorton Greene (10 February 1802 – 3 January 1868) was an American judge and poet.

Quotes

• Old Grimes is dead, that good old man
  We never shall see more;
  He used to wear a long black coat
  All buttoned down before.
  • Old Grimes, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: Compare: "John Lee is dead, that good old man,— / We ne'er shall see him more; / He used to wear an old drab coat / All buttoned down before", Inscription in Matherne Churchyard, To the memory of John Lee, who died May 21, 1823; "Old Abram Brown is dead and gone,— / You'll never see him more; / He used to wear a long brown coat / That buttoned down before", James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Nursery Rhymes of England, p. 60.

• Fill every beaker up, my men, pour forth the cheering wine:
  There’s life and strength in every drop,—thanksgiving to the vine!
  • The Baron's last Banquet, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).