 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1891 - 1050 páginas
...to repeat with deep feeling : The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb; giving the marked Southwestern pronunciation of the words " hear " and " year." A poem by William Knox,... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 páginas
...he said, " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma lias said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1872 - 248 páginas
...if he said, " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for...rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it resta upon his chin Like a staff; And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.... | |
 | 1872 - 660 páginas
...their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. That ho had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In...it rests upon his chin Like a staff; And a crook is iu his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him... | |
 | 1872 - 1176 páginas
...lonely centenarian— " When the mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed, In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear, Have been carved for many a year On the tomb?" As he looks on life's busy whirl, so change less in its activity, its energy, and its vigour, yet ever... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 páginas
...he said, " They are gone ! " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. That ho had a Roman nose, And his chock was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose U thin, And it... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 páginas
...we give the reader : — " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." Mr. Lincoln frequently said that he lived by his humor, and would have died without it. His manner... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1872 - 370 páginas
...the poem, and is this : — " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb." As he finished this verse, he said, in his emphatic way, " For pure pathos, m my judgment, there is... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 páginas
...said, " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom ; ¿nd That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1873 - 730 páginas
...marbles rest On the lips that he has press'd In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have lieen carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long agoThai he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. And now his nose is thin, And... | |
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And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. 
