 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 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 1 ibid. Thou say'st an undisputed thing In such a solemn way. To an Insect. Where go the poet's lines... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 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...forsaken bough Where I cling. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. THE APPROACH OF AGE. FROM "TALES OF THE HALL." Six years had passed, and forty ere the six, When Time began... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 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. BILL AND JOE. jn Bill and Joe. COME, dear old comrade, you and I Will steal an hour from... | |
 | Charles Henry Jones - American poetry - 1876 - 424 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...live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, DAILY TRIALS. Let them smile as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling. DAILY TRIALS. /'~\H,... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...And it rests upon his chin Like a staff; And a crook is in his hack, And a melancholy crack In hie laugh. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At...if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree 111 the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, Ль Uie old forsaken hough Where I cling. OUVIM \\ I... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1878 - 708 pages
...back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; 486 But the old three-cornered hat. And the breeches,...them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Wlujrc I cling. 487 & f if II 6 CO CO 6»Q »w» «w» «^» jrood old times, flt, brave and true,... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - Commonplace-books - 1879 - 254 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...do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.' OW Holmes. Dr. Holmes is very popular is England as a prose writer, and as a poet he is also much admired,... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - Commonplace-books - 1879 - 254 pages
...rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. 1 1 know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here...do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.' OW Holmes. Dr. Holmes is very popular is England as a prose writer, and as a poet he is also much admired,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...rests upon his chin Like a staff ; And a crook is in his Irnck. Anil n melancholy crack In his laugh. 1 APPROACH OF AGE. FROM "TALES OF THE HALL." Six years had passed, and forty ere the six, When Time began... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1880 - 474 pages
...rests 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 ! Quite equal to the above is the following, entitled My Aunt.: — My aunt, my dear unmarried aunt... | |
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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... 
