 | James Fleming - 1863 - 404 pages
...In his laugh. I know it is a sin For to me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-corner'd hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer...forsaken bough Where I cling. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. LABOUR. LABOUR is rest — from the sorrows that greet us ; Best from all petty vexations that meet... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 368 pages
...to sit and grin At him here', But the old three-corner'd hat, And the breeches — and all that', 8. And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the...do now* At the old forsaken bough' Where I cling'. OLIvEB W. HOLMES. a More solemnity and deeper feeling are expressed by the inflections as here given... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American poetry - 1864 - 444 pages
...thin, And it rests upon his chin Iake a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In Ws laugh. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At...I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling. TO A BLANK SHEET OF PAPER. AN-VISAGED thing ! thy virgin leaf To me looks more than deadly pale, Unknowing... | |
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-corner'd hat, And the breeches, and all that, And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the...forsaken bough Where I cling. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. LABOUR. LABOUR is rest — from the sorrows that greet us ; Best from all petty vexations that meet... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...upon his chin Like a staff; And a crook is in his back, and a melancholy crack / In his laugh. For I know it is a sin for me to sit and grin At him here...hat, and the breeches, and all that, Are so queer ! equal to the above is the following, entitled My Aunt : — My aunt, my dear unmarried aunt ! Long... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Thurston - Quotations - 1866 - 320 pages
...snow; But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is...three-cornered hat. And the breeches, and all that, And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring; Let them smile, as I do now,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. The Last Leaf. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here...hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer ! ibid. Thou say'st an undisputed thing In such a solemn way. To an Insect. Thine eye was on the censer,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1870 - 444 pages
...grin At him here ; But the old three-corner'd hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer ! 8. And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the...forsaken bough Where I cling. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SECTION IV. I. 14.- WISH FOR NO MAN'S MONEY. health, and strength, and freshness, and sweet sleep JL... | |
 | English poetry - 1871 - 476 pages
...snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is...now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling. OLIVER W. HOLMES. WHAT THE END SHALL BE. 189 What the End shall be, WHEN another life is added To the heaving,... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - American literature - 1871 - 236 pages
...snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is...them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK. 1810-1841. (Manual, pp. 503, 523.) 297. "AN INVITATION" TO EARLY PIETY. COME,... | |
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My grandmamma 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 his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack... 
