| Park Benjamin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Osborne Sargent - Gift books - 1833 - 114 pages
...That it seems as if 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...is dead Long ago; That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff,... | |
| 1836 - 418 pages
...the above beautiful poem, that the same pen could trace the following, speaking of an old man — " My grandmamma has said, — Poor old lady, she is...Roman nose, And his check was like a rose In the snow. " But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And... | |
| American poetry - 1836 - 268 pages
...That it seems as if 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 grandmama has said — Poor old lady— she is dead Long ago; That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek... | |
| Periodicals - 1836 - 706 pages
...That it seems as if ho said, 'They are gone." ' The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prosied In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb ! 4 My grand roam a has said — Poor old lady — she is dead Long ago ; That he hada Roman none,... | |
| 1836 - 700 pages
...bloom, And the names he loved to hear Hare been carved for many a year On tbe tomb ! 1 My grandmama has said — Poor old lady • she is dead Long ago , That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. 'But now bts nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff*;... | |
| American literature - 1836 - 694 pages
...are gone.' " The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom, And the names lie loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. "My grand mama has said — Poor old lady — she is dead Long ago ; That he had a Roman nose, And his... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1895 - 634 pages
...handwriting and Abraham Lincoln was fond of quoting : ' 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." Since that time other works in prose and verse have poured from his pen, till his name as an essayist,... | |
| 1838 - 484 pages
...it seemed as if 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 his tomb ! My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago— That he had a Roman nose,... | |
| Animals - 1839 - 204 pages
...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...dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. " But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff;... | |
| William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1839 - 368 pages
...of show. Is the poem whence the following verьes are extracted an honest selection ? My grandmama has said — Poor old lady ; she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose III tiit- зiWW.' I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But... | |
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